Qawish
Cahuish (possibly from Quechua ''qawi'' put into the sun) is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Ancash Region, Huari Province, Chavin de Huantar District, and in the Recuay Province, Ticapampa District. Cahuish lies southwest of the mountain and the archaeological site of WaraqayuqInstituto Nacional de Cultura, Centro Nacional de Información Cultural, Contribución para un primer inventario general de sitios arqueológicos del Perú, Lima 2001 and southeast of Yanamarey Yanamarey (possibly from Quechua ''yana'' black, ''maran'', ''maray'' batan or grindstone, ''maray'' to tear down, to knock down, "black batan or grindstone") or Yanaraju is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about high. .... References Mountains of Peru Mountains of Ancash Region {{Ancash-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Recuay Province
The Recuay Province is one of twenty provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru. Its seat is the town of Recuay. Geography The southern parts of the Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Negra traverse the province. Some of the highest peaks of the province are listed below: Qiruqucha is one of the largest lakes of the province. Political division Recuay is divided into ten districts, which are: * Catac * Cotaparaco * Huayllapampa * Llacllin * Marca * Pampas Chico * Pararin * Recuay * Tapacocha * Ticapampa Ethnic groups The province is inhabited by indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Spanish is the language which the majority of the population (63.32%) learnt to speak in childhood, 36.42% of the residents started speaking using the Quechua language (2007 Peru Census). INEI, Peru, Censos N ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Huari Province
The Huari Province is one of twenty provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru. Its seat is Huari. Geography The Cordillera Blanca traverses the western part of the province. Some of the highest peaks of the province are Rurichinchay and Wantsan. Other mountains are listed below: Political division Huari is divided into sixteen districts, which are: * Anra * Cajay * Chavín de Huantar * Huacachi * Huacchis * Huachis * Huantar * Huari * Masin * Paucas * Ponto * Rahuapampa * Rapayan * San Marcos * San Pedro de Chana * Uco Ethnic groups The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (78.05%) learnt to speak in childhood, 21.49% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language ( 2007 Peru Census). Archaeological sites The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Chavín de Huantar is the most famous archaeological site of the province. Another remarkable p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ticapampa District
Ticapampa District is one of ten districts of the Recuay Province in Peru. Geography The Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Negra traverse the district. Some of the highest mountains of the district are listed below:escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Reucay Province (Ancash Region) See also * Qiruqucha Lake Querococha (possibly from Quechua language, Quechua ''wikt:qiru, qiru'' ceremonial drinking vessel, or ''q'iru'' wood and ''qucha'' lake; "''qiru'' lake" or "wood lake") is a lake in Peru located in the Ancash Region, Recuay Province, in the d ... References Districts of the Recuay Province Districts of the Ancash Region {{Ancash-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Qiruqucha
Lake Querococha (possibly from Quechua language, Quechua ''wikt:qiru, qiru'' ceremonial drinking vessel, or ''q'iru'' wood and ''qucha'' lake; "''qiru'' lake" or "wood lake") is a lake in Peru located in the Ancash Region, Recuay Province, in the districts Ticapampa District, Ticapampa and Catac District, Catac. The lake is situated at a height of , about 2.43 km long and 0.87 km at its widest point. Lake Querococha lies on the western side of the Cordillera Blanca, southwest of Yanamarey and Pucaraju (Ticapampa), Pucaraju, northwest of Mururaju and Queshque and east of Recuay, Peru, Recuay. See also * Queshquecocha *List of lakes in Peru References Lakes of Peru Lakes of Ancash Region {{Ancash-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ancash Region
Ancash ( qu, Anqash; es, Áncash ) is a department and region in northern Peru. It is bordered by the departments of La Libertad on the north, Huánuco and Pasco on the east, Lima on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital is the city of Huaraz, and its largest city and port is Chimbote. The name of the region originates from the Quechua word ('light, of little weight'), from ('blue') or from ('eagle'). Geography Ancash is a land of contrasts: it features two great longitudinal valleys, which combine the mountain characteristics of the Callejón de Huaylas (Alley of Huaylas) with the sylvan ones of the Alto Marañón. Kilometres of sandy beaches and the blue waters of the Pacific. The territory of the coast, high plateaux and Andean '' punas'' of the department are flat, while the rest of the territory, in the Andes, is very rough. In the west, there are slopes with strong declivity form narrow canyons with abrupt and deserted sides. The rough territor ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Peru
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Cordillera Blanca
The Cordillera Blanca (Spanish for "white range") is a mountain range in Peru that is part of the larger Andes range and extends for between 8°08' and 9°58'S and 77°00' and 77°52'W, in a northwesterly direction. It includes several peaks over high and 722 individual glaciers. The highest mountain in Peru, Huascarán, at high, is located there. The Cordillera Blanca lies in the Ancash region and runs parallel to the Santa River valley (also called Callejón de Huaylas in its upper and midsections) on the west. Huascarán National Park, established in 1975, encompasses almost the entire range of the Cordillera Blanca. Snowmelt from the Cordillera Blanca provides part of northern Peru with its year-round water supply, while 5% of Peru's power comes from a hydro-electrical plant located in the Santa River valley. The area of permanent ice cover shrank by about a third between the 1970s and 2006. Geography The Cordillera Blanca is the most extensive tropical ice-covered m ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Quechua Language
Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers as of 2004.Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechuan language. It is perhaps most widely known for being the main language family of the Inca Empire. The Spanish encouraged its use until the Peruvian War of Independence, Peruvian struggle for independence of the 1780s. As a result, Quechua variants are still widely spoken today, being the co-official language of many regions and the second most spoken language family in Peru. History Quechua had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long before the expansion of the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chavin De Huantar District
Chavin may refer to: Places * Chavín de Huantar, an archaeological site in Peru built by the Chavín culture * Chavín District, Chincha, Peru * Chavín de Huantar District, Huari, Peru * Chavín de Pariarca District, Huamalies, Peru * Chavin, Indre, a commune of the Indre ''département'' in France * Chavin, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran * The Chavín parish belonging to the municipality of Viveiro, Spain Other uses * Chinga Chavin, U.S. musician * Chavín culture, an early culture of the Andean region, pre-dating the Moche culture in Peru * Operation Chavín de Huántar Operation Chavín de Huántar was a military operation in which a team of 142 commandos of the Peruvian Armed Forces ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis by raiding the Japanese ambassador's residence and freeing the hostages held there ..., a Peruvian military operation that ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis * Rhinella chavin (''R. chavin''), a species of toad See al ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Waraqayuq
Waraqayuq (Quechua ''waraqa'' sack, ''-yuq'' a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with a sack", Hispanicized spelling ''Huaracayoc'') or Warak'ayuq (''warak'a'' sling or slingshot, "the one with a sling") is a mountain with an archaeological site of the same name in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Ancash Region, Huari Province The Huari Province is one of twenty provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru. Its seat is Huari. Geography The Cordillera Blanca traverses the western part of the province. Some of the highest peaks of the province are Rurichinchay and Wantsan. ..., Chavin de Huantar District, east of the mountain Yanamaray. The archaeological site of Waraqayuq lies on the northern slope of the mountain at ,Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Centro Nacional de Información Cultural, Contribución para un primer inventario general de sitios arqueológicos del Perú, Lima 2001 above the Walpish valley ''(Hualpish)''. Refe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yanamarey
Yanamarey (possibly from Quechua ''yana'' black, ''maran'', ''maray'' batan or grindstone, ''maray'' to tear down, to knock down, "black batan or grindstone") or Yanaraju is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located between Recuay and Huari provinces, in Ancash. Yanamaray lies east of Pucaraju and northeast of Lake Querococha, between Matashcu in the north and Cahuish in the south. The Yanamaray River originates west of the mountain. It provides Qiruqucha with the melt water of the Yanamarey glacier before it empties into Santa Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring children gifts during the late evening and overnight ... River. Annual observations have shown that the Yanamarey glacier has been rapidly retreating over the last years.Jeffrey T. Bury et al., Glacier recession and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |