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Singrenacocha
Lake Singrenacocha (possibly from Quechua ''sinkriy'' to walk in a line / to string, ''sikriy, sinri'' to string beads, ''-na'' a suffix, ''qucha'' lake) or Sigrenacochaescale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Quispicanchi Province (Cusco Region), showing ''"Sigrenacocha"'' and the nearby river "Singrena" is a lake in Peru located in the Cusco Region, Quispicanchi Province, Ocongate District. It is situated at a height of about , about 3.82 km long and 0.88 km at its widest point. Singrenacocha lies in the Vilcanota mountain range, northwest of the larger Lake Sibinacocha and north of the Callangate Callangate or Ccallangate is a mountain massif in the Vilcanota mountain range of the Andes in Peru. Its highest point is Collpa Ananta (possibly from Aymara and Quechua ''qullpa'', "saltpeter"), also known as Chimboya, with an elevation of . ... massif. References Singrenacocha Singrenacocha {{Peru-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Sibinacocha
Lake Sibinacocha (possibly from Quechua ''siwina'' whistle, ''qucha'' lake, lagoon) is a lake in Peru. It is ranked as the 22nd highest lake in the world. It is located in the Cusco Region, Canchis Province, Pitumarca District. The lake is situated at a height of approximately , about 15.19 km long and 2.86 km at its widest point, and drains into the Amazon River. Sibinacocha lies in the Vilcanota Range, south of Chumpe and southwest of Condoriquiña. The lake contains Inca artifact, some of which have been recovered from the lake. Sacred sites around the lake have been studied as possible locations of the lost Ausangate temple. The area has been studied for its importance to the greater Urubamba-Vilcanota watershed. A high-altitude diver, Geoffrey Belter, died in 2014 while exploring the lake. An earthen dam was erected at the lake in 1996. It is long and high. The reservoir has a volume of and a capacity of . It is operated by EGEMSA. See also * Lake Sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordillera Vilcanota
The Cordillera Vilcanota (Spanish ''cordillera'': "mountain range", Aymara Willkan Uta or Willkanuta: "house of the sun") is a mountain range located in Peru southeast of Cusco, on the boundary between the regions of Cusco and Puno. It extends between 13°39' and 14°29'S and 70°31' and 71°20'W for about 80 km. It includes 469 glaciers. To the east the rivers San Gabán and Azángaro are the natural boundary which separates it from the Carabaya range. The La Raya range near the La Raya pass is sometimes included or listed separately. Toponyms Most of the names in the range originate from Quechua and Aymara. They used to be spelled according to a mainly Spanish-based orthography which is incompatible with the normalized spellings of these languages and Law 29735 which regulates the 'use, preservation, development, recovery, promotion and diffusion of the originary languages of Peru'. According to Article 20 of ''Decreto Supremo No 004-2016-MC'' (Supreme Decree) which a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peru
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Cusco Region
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; qu, Qusqu suyu ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de Dios and Puno on the east; Arequipa on the south; and Apurímac, Ayacucho and Junín on the west. Its capital is Cusco, the historical capital of the Inca Empire. Geography The plain of Anta contains some of the best communal cultivated lands of the Department of Cusco. It is located about above sea level and is used to cultivate mainly high altitude crops such as potatoes, tarwi (edible lupin), barley and quinoa. Provinces * Acomayo (Acomayo) * Anta (Anta) * Calca ( Calca) * Canas (Yanaoca) * Canchis (Sicuani) * Chumbivilcas (Santo Tomás) * Cusco (Cusco) * Espinar (Yauri) * La Convención (Quillabamba) * Paruro ( Paruro) * Paucartambo (Paucartambo) * Quispicanchi (Urcos) * Urubamba ( Urubamba) Languages According to the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Bead
A bead is a small, decorative object that is formed in a variety of shapes and sizes of a material such as stone, bone, shell, glass, plastic, wood, or pearl and with a small hole for threading or stringing. Beads range in size from under to over in diameter. Beads represent some of the earliest forms of jewellery, with a pair of beads made from ''Nassarius'' sea snail shells dating to approximately 100,000 years ago thought to be the earliest known example. Beadwork is the art or craft of making things with beads. Beads can be woven together with specialized thread, strung onto thread or soft, flexible wire, or adhered to a surface (e.g. fabric, clay). Types of beads Beads can be divided into several types of overlapping categories based on different criteria such as the materials from which they are made, the process used in their manufacturing, the place or period of origin, the patterns on their surface, or their general shape. In some cases, such as millefiori and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional suffixes) or lexical information ( derivational/lexical suffixes'').'' An inflectional suffix or a grammatical suffix. Such inflection changes the grammatical properties of a word within its syntactic category. For derivational suffixes, they can be divided into two categories: class-changing derivation and class-maintaining derivation. Particularly in the study of Semitic languages, suffixes are called affirmatives, as they can alter the form of the words. In Indo-European studies, a distinction is made between suffixes and endings (see Proto-Indo-European root). Suffixes can carry grammatical information or lexical information. A word-final segment that is somewhere between a free morpheme and a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quispicanchi Province
Quispicanchi Province is one of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. Geography The Quispicanchi Province is bounded to the north by the Paucartambo Province and the Madre de Dios Region, to the east by the Puno Region, to the south by the Canchis Province, and to the west by the Acomayo Province, the Paruro Province and the Cusco Province. The Willkanuta mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest peaks of the province are Ausangate, Chumpi and Qullpa Ananta. Other mountains are listed below: Siwinaqucha and Sinkrinaqucha belong to the largest lakes of the province. Political division The province is divided into twelve districts ( es, distritos, singular: ), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are: * Andahuaylillas (Andahuaylillas) * Camanti ( Quince Mil) * Ccarhuayo ( Ccarhuayo) * Ccatca ( Ccatca) * Cusipata ( Cusipata) * Huaro ( Huaro) * Lucre ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ocongate District
The Ocongate District is one of the twelve districts in the Quispicanchi Province in Peru. Created on January 2, 1857, its capital is the town of Ocongate. Geography The Willkanuta mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest peaks are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (90.98%) learnt to speak in childhood, 8.69% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ... language ( 2007 Peru Census). INEI, Peru, Censos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callangate
Callangate or Ccallangate is a mountain massif in the Vilcanota mountain range of the Andes in Peru. Its highest point is Collpa Ananta (possibly from Aymara and Quechua ''qullpa'', "saltpeter"), also known as Chimboya, with an elevation of . Another peak in the massif is called Ccallangate. It lies in the Cusco Region, Quispicanchi Province, Ocongate District.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL maps of the Quispicanchi Province 1 (Cusco Region)lib.utexas.edu Map of the area showing "Collpa Ananta" Collpa Ananta is the second-highest peak in , and ranks as the 24th highest in Peru. First ascent Callangate was first climbed by Germans Günther Hauser and Bernhard Ku ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakes Of Peru
The following is a list of lakes in Peru.Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)"Compendio Estadistica 2007" page 26 Many of the names have the ending -cocha, from Quechua ''qucha'': lake. * Acucocha * Alcacocha * Arapa * Aricota * Belaunde *Carpa * Chauya * Choclococha *Huacachina * Imiria * Jucumarini * Junin * Quishuar Lakes * Langui Layo * Lagunillas * Lauricocha * Loriscota *Llanganuco Lakes * Marcapomacocha * Mucurca *Palcacocha *Paca * Pacucha * Parinacochas * Parón *Paucarcocha * Pelagatos * Pías * Pomacanchi * Pumacocha * Punrun * Querococha * Conococha * Colorcocha * Rimachi * Salinas *Sandoval * Saracocha * Sausacocha *Sauce * Shegue *Sibinacocha * Suches *Titicaca * Tragadero * Umayo * Orcococha *Valencia *Vizcacha * Huangacocha * Huarmicocha * Huaroncocha * Huascacocha * Huichicocha * Vilacota * Huiñaymarca * Yanawayin * Yanaqucha See also *List of lakes *List of lakes by area *List of lakes by depth *List of lakes by volume References {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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