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Pukintika
Pukintika (Aymara ''puki'' white soil, ''tika'' adobe, Hispanicized spellings ''Puguintica, Puquintica'', ''Poquentica'', ''Puquentica'') is a volcano in the Andes, about 5,407 m (17,740 ft) high, situated in the Cordillera Occidental on the border of Bolivia and Chile. It is located in the Arica and Parinacota Region of Chile and the Oruro Department of Bolivia (in Sabaya Province, Sabaya Municipality, Julo Canton). Pukintika lies to the north of the Salar de Surire, east beside Arintika volcano which is younger than Pukintika. Pukintika also features a crater lake with a surface area of . Deposits of elemental sulfur have been found on Pukintika. See also * Asu Asuni * Kimsa Chata * List of mountains in the Andes A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugb ...
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Arintica
Arintica is a stratovolcano located in Arica y Parinacota Region of Chile, near the border with Bolivia. It lies north of the Salar de Surire. The volcano has a main summit in the north, a slightly shorter southern summit and a subsidiary peak in the west. A glacier valley lies between the summits. The height of the snowline is . Stage II moraines found on Arintica have altitudes ranging from on the southern flank to on the eastern flank. On the western flank they reach altitudes of . In total, five glaciers surrounded Arintica and drained into the Salar de Surire. Presently, rock glaciers are active on the mountain. Potassium-argon dating has yielded an age of years on rocks from Arintica. The volcano was constructed in two phases and postglacial lava flows have been found by Landsat imagery, but they are unsampled. A previously identified southeastern lava flow has been later identified as a debris avalanche, and other lava flows in the crater are actually rock glaciers. A ...
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Sabaya Province
Sabaya (formerly: Atahuallpa) is a province in the central parts of the Bolivian Oruro Department. Its seat is Sabaya. Location Sabaya Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It is located between 18° 35' and 19° 39' South and between 67° 31' and 68° 39' West. It borders Sajama Province in the north, the Republic of Chile and Puerto de Mejillones Province in the west, the Potosí Department in the southwest, the Ladislao Cabrera Province in the southeast, and the Litoral Province in the northeast. The province extends over 160 km from northwest to southeast, and 50 km from northeast to southwest. Geography One of the highest peaks of the province is Pukintika on the border to Chile. Other mountains are listed below:BIGM map 1:50,000 Cerro Capitan Hoja 5837-III Climate Population The main language in the province is Spanish, spoken by 92%, 67% of the population speak Aymara and 9% speak Quechua. The population increased from 3,567 i ...
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Wila Qullu (Sabaya)
Wila Qullu ( Aymara ''wila'' red, blood, ''qullu'' mountain, "red mountain", hispanicized spelling ''Wila Khollu, Wila Kkollu'') is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes, about high. It situated in the Cordillera Occidental near the border with Chile. It is located in the Oruro Department, Sabaya Province, Sabaya Municipality, Julo Canton. Wila Qullu lies south-east of the volcano Pukintika and north-west of the mountain Phaq'u Q'awa.Bolivian IGM map 1:250,000 Corque SE-19-11 Sabaya Municipality: population data and map showing "Wila Kkollu" See also * Kimsa Chata *List of mountains in the Andes A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References Mountains of Oruro Department {{Oruro-geo-stub ...
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Qillwiri
Qillwiri ( Aymara ''qillwa, qiwña, qiwlla'' Andean gull, ''-(i)ri'' a suffix, also spelled ''Khellhuiri'') is a mountain in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Chile. On the Chilean side it is located in the Arica y Parinacota Region. It is situated in the Cordillera Occidental between the mountains Pukintika in the north-west and Lliscaya in the south-east, east of the Suriri salt flat. On the Bolivian side the mountain lies in the Oruro Department, Sabaya Province Sabaya (formerly: Atahuallpa) is a province in the central parts of the Bolivian Oruro Department. Its seat is Sabaya. Location Sabaya Province is one of sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It is located between 18° 35' and 19° 39' Sou ..., Sabaya Municipality. See also * Kimsa Chata References Mountains of Arica y Parinacota Region Mountains of Oruro Department {{chile-mountain-stub ...
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Salar De Surire
Salar de Surire Natural Monument is a Chilean Natural Monument located in the Andes, in the Arica y Parinacota Region. It consists mainly of a salt flat and a number of small salt lakes, sheltering several Andean species of wildlife and plants. Arintica volcano towers over the salt flat. The protected area, along with Lauca National Park and Las Vicuñas National Reserve, were designated a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1981, which is called Lauca.UNESCO
- Description at UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve
Salar de Surire is one of the Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance under the

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Aymara Language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guaraní. Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language. Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal features rising from prolonged cohabitation, rather than natural genealogical changes that would stem from a common protolanguage. Aymara is an agglutinating and, to a cert ...
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Asu Asuni
Asu Asuni (Aymara ''asu'' newborn creature, the reduplication signifies there is a group or a complex of something, ''-ni'' a nominal suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with some newborn creatures") is a mountain in a volcanic complex in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Turco Municipality, Turco Canton. It is situated southeast of the extinct Sajama volcano (3 km), between the Chullkani Chullkani (possibly a broken name from Aymara Chullunkhäni ("the one with the icicles"), Hispanicized spelling ''Chullcani'') is a volcano in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Oruro Department, Sajama Provi ... volcano in the west (3 km) and Turco in the east, at the National Route 27. See also * Jitiri * Laram Q'awa * Kunturiri (Bolivia-Chile) * Kunturiri (Sajama) * Uyarani References Volcanoes of Oruro Department {{Oruro-geo-stub ...
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Mountains Of Oruro Department
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (1,000 feet) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are Monadnock, isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. Mountain formation, Mountains are formed through Tectonic plate, tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through Slump (geology), slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce Alpine climate, colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the Montane ecosystems, ecosys ...
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Volcanoes Of Arica Y Parinacota Region
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the crust's plates, such as in the East African Rift and the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and Rio Grande rift in North America. Volcanism away from plate boundaries has been postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs from the core–mantle boundary, deep in the Earth. This results in hotspot volcanism, of which the Hawaiian hotspot is an example. Volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide pa ...
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after declaring in ...
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Uyarani
Uyarani is a volcano in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Turco Municipality, Turco Canton.Turco Municipality:
population data and map It lies south-east of the extinct Sajama volcano and the Chullkani volcano and south-west of the volcanic complex, between the Challwiri River and the
Lauca River The Lauca River is a binational river. It originates in the Chilean Altiplano of the Arica and P ...
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Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S latitude), and has an average height of about . The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. Along their length, the Andes are split into several ranges, separated by intermediate depressions. The Andes are the location of several high plateaus—some of which host major cities such as Quito, Bogotá, Cali, Arequipa, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Sucre, Mérida, El Alto and La Paz. The Altiplano plateau is the world's second-highest after the Tibetan plateau. These ranges are in turn grouped into three major divisions based on climate: the Tropical Andes, the Dry Andes, and the Wet Andes. The Andes Mountains are the highest m ...
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