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Tunki Urqu
Tunquiorjo (possibly from Quechua ''tunki'' Andean cock-of-the-rock, ''urqu'' mountain, "Andean cock-of-the-rock mountain") is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Cusco Region, La Convención Province, Huayopata District, and in the Urubamba Province, Machupicchu District. Tunquiorjo lies in the northwestern extensions of the Urubamba mountain range, northeast of the archaeological site of Machu Picchu Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain range.UNESCO World Heritage Centre. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province above the Sacred Valley, which ....escale.minedu.gob.pe Map of the Urubamba Province References Mountains of Peru Mountains of Cusco Region {{Cusco-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Peru
, image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Firm and Happy for the Union" , national_anthem = "National Anthem of Peru" , march = "March of Flags" , image_map = PER orthographic.svg , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Lima , coordinates = , largest_city = capital , official_languages = Peruvian Spanish, Spanish , languages_type = Co-official languages , languages = , ethnic_groups = , ethnic_groups_year = 2017 , demonym = Peruvians, Peruvian , government_type = Unitary state, Unitary Semi-presidential system, semi-presidential republic , leader_title1 = President of Peru, President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Andean Cock-of-the-rock
The Andean cock-of-the-rock (''Rupicola peruvianus''), also known as ''tunki'' (Quechua), is a large passerine bird of the cotinga family native to Andean cloud forests in South America. It is widely regarded as the national bird of Peru. It has four subspecies and its closest relative is the Guianan cock-of-the-rock. The Andean cock-of-the-rock exhibits marked sexual dimorphism; the male has a large disk-like crest and scarlet or brilliant orange plumage, while the female is significantly darker and browner. Gatherings of males compete for breeding females with each male displaying his colourful plumage, bobbing and hopping, and making a variety of calls. After mating, the female makes a nest under a rocky overhang, incubates the eggs, and rears the young by herself. The Andean cock-of-the-rock eats a diet of fruit, supplemented by insects, amphibians, reptiles, and smaller mice. It is distributed all across the cloud forest of the Andes, having a range of around . Even though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Convención Province
La Convención Province is the largest of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. As part of the higher-altitude Amazon basin at the foot of the Andes, La Convención is one of three Peruvian provinces that prominently figure in national coffee production, the other being Chanchamayo province in Junín state and Jaén province in Cajamarca state. Geography The La Convención Province is bounded to the north by the Junín Region and the Ucayali Region, to the east by the Madre de Dios Region, to the south by the Anta Province, the Calca Province and the Urubamba Province, and to the west by the Ayacucho Region and the Apurímac Region. La Convención province is approximately long from north to south. Within that distance, the land of La Convención reaches has a maximum elevation of at Salcantay, on the border of La Convención, Anta, and Urubamba provinces, and a minimum elevation of in the Amazon Basin along the Ucayali River. Between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huayopata District
Huayopata District is one of fourteen districts of the province La Convención in Peru. Huyro, the capital of the district had a population of 1,619 in 2017. Nearby Amaybamba (not to be confused with the town of the same name in Inkawasi District) had a population of 663. The Peruvian government's estimate of the 2017 population of the district was 4,773 of which 77 percent of the population over 12 years of age belonged to what it defined as the Quechua ethnic group. Geography Huayopata district consists of the narrow valley of the Lucumayo River, the source of which is the north slope of Veronica (mountain), ( in elevation, and the mountains on both sides of the valley. The Lucumayo River flows into the Urubamba River at an elevation of . The Urupampa mountain range traverses the northern border of Hayopata. The highest peak of the district is Urupampa, also called Veronica. Other mountains are listed below: Climate The large variation in elevations in Huayopata dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urubamba Province
Urubamba Province is one of thirteen provinces in the Cusco Region in the southern highlands of Peru. Geography The province is bounded to the north by the La Convención Province, to the east by the Calca Province, to the south by the Cusco Province and the Anta Province, and to the west by the La Convención Province. The Urupampa and Willkapampa mountain ranges traverse the province. Some of the highest peaks of the province are listed below: Political division The province is divided into seven districts ( es, distritos, singular: ''distrito''), each of which is headed by a mayor (''alcalde''). The districts, with their capitals in parenthesis, are: * Chinchero ( Chinchero) * Huayllabamba ( Huayllabamba) * Machupicchu ( Machupicchu) * Maras ( Maras) * Ollantaytambo (Ollantaytambo) * Urubamba ( Urubamba) * Yucay ( Yucay) Ethnic groups The people in the province are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machupicchu District
Machupicchu (from Quechua Machu Pikchu, "old peak") is one of seven districts of the Urubamba Province in Peru. Its seat is the village of Machupicchu. Geography The Urupampa and Willkapampa mountain ranges traverse the district. Some of the highest mountains of the district are listed below:escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the La Convención Province 1 (Cusco Region) * K'urkur Urqu * Phutuq K'usi * P'allqay * Sallqantay * Tunki Urqu * Wayna Pikchu See also * Kusichaka River * Machu Pikchu * Machu Q'inti Machu Q'inti ( Quechua ''machu'' old, old person, ''q'inti'' hummingbird,Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) ''Q'inti'' a place nearby, "old Q'inti", hispanicized spell ... * Pakaymayu * Patallaqta * Runkuraqay * Warmi Wañusqa * Wayna Q'inti References {{Cusco-geo-stub 1941 establishments in Peru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urubamba Mountain Range
The Urubamba mountain range (possibly from Quechua ''uru'' spider, ''pampa'' a plain) lies in the Cusco Region in Peru.The American Alpine Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, Issue 47, 1973, p. 389. ''Cordillera Urubamba'' It extends in a northwesterly direction between 13°08' and 13°17'S and 71°58' and 72°16'W for about 30 km. 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 original languages of Peru'. According to Article 20 of ''Decreto Supremo No 004-2016-MC'' (Supreme Decree) which approves the Regulations to Law 29735, published in the official newspaper El Peruano on July 22, 2016, adequate spellings of the toponyms in the normalized alphabets of the indigenous languages must progressively be proposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain range.UNESCO World Heritage Centre. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province above the Sacred Valley, which is northwest of Cusco. The Urubamba River flows past it, cutting through the Cordillera and creating a canyon with a tropical mountain climate. For most speakers of English or Spanish, the first 'c' in ''Picchu'' is silent. In English, the name is pronounced or , in Spanish as or , and in Quechua (''Machu Pikchu'') as . The Incas, in contrast to the Maya, had no written language, and no European visited the site until the 19th century, so far as is known. There are, therefore, no written records of the site while it was in use. The names of the buildings, their supposed uses, and their inhabitants are all the product of modern archaeologists, on the basis of physical evidence, including tombs at the site. Most recent archaeologists b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountains Of Peru
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 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 isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. Mountains are formed through 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 slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the ecosystems of mountains: different elevations have different plants and animals. Because of the less hospitable terrain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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