Chearoco, Chiaraco or Chiaroco
[Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Comunidad Amaguaya 5946-III (where the position of Ch'iyar Juqhu is possibly not labelled correctly)] (all possibly from
Aymara ''ch'iyara'' black, ''juqhu'' muddy place) is a mountain in the
Cordillera Real in the
Andes
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of
Bolivia
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. It has a height of about . It is situated in the
La Paz Department,
Larecaja Province
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Geography
The Cordillera Real (Bolivia), Cordiller ...
,
Guanay Municipality, southeast of the peak of Aman Pata.
[ Chearoco lies between ]Qalsata
Calzada (possibly from Aymara , stones; or Spanish , road)babylon.com
''Calzada'' (Spanish) - roadway; ...
in the northwest and Chachakumani in the southeast.
The Aymara name of the mountain correlates with the names of the nearby area ''(Chiar Jokho)'' and the river Ch'iyar Juqhu ''(Chiar Jokho, Chiar Joko)'' which originates near the mountain.
First Ascent
Chearoko was first climbed by Erwin Hein (Austria), Alfred Horeschowski, Hugo Hoertnagel and Hans Pfann (Germany) 25 June 1928.
Elevation
Other data from available digital elevation models
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: ASTER 6078 metres and TanDEM-X
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6106 metres. The height of the nearest key col
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is 5049 meters
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, leading to a topographic prominence
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of 1055 meters
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.parent peak
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is Ancohuma and the Topographic isolation
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is 18.4 kilometers
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.
See also
*List of mountains in the Andes
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Considerations
The list is an incomplete list of mountains in the Andes. There are many named and unnamed peaks in the Andes that are currently not included in this lis ...
References
Mountains of La Paz Department (Bolivia)
Glaciers of Bolivia
Six-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of Bolivia
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