The Ch'iyar Juqhu River (

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Ch'iyar Juqhu Jawira, ''ch'iyara'' black, ''juqhu'' muddy place, ''jawira'' river, "black muddy river", Hispanicized spellings ''Chiar Jokho'', ''Chiar Joko'') is a

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n river east of

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in the La Paz Department. It originates in the Cordillera Real near the peaks of the 6,127 m high

Ch'iyar Juqhu Chearoco, Chiaraco or ChiarocoBolivian 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 ...

which is probably named after the river or the region around it and the 5,871 m high

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and flows down towards the

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. At first the river flows in a southwestern direction. Near the village of Qurpa Putu ''(Corpa Puto)'' in the

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it turns to the northwest unifying with more rivers to end in Lake Titicaca near the mouth of the Jach'a Jawira.

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