Cayco (Cusco)
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Cayco (possibly from Quechua for a type of hunt) is a mountain in the Vilcabamba mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is situated in the
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 D ...
, La Convención Province, on the border of the districts of Santa Teresa and Vilcabamba. Cayco lies southwest of
Choquetacarpo Choquetacarpo (possibly from Quechua ''chuqi'' metal, every kind of precious metal / gold (Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)< ...
and northeast of
Pumasillo Pumasillo (possibly from Quechua ''puma'' cougar, puma, ''sillu'' claw, "puma claw") is a mountain in the Vilcabamba mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,991 m (19,656 ft) high. Pumasillo or Sacsarayoc also refers to the whole ...
and a lake named Pumasillococha (possibly from in the Quechua spelling ''Pumasilluqucha'').


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Mountains of Peru Mountains of Cusco Region {{Cusco-geo-stub