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 th ...

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 Achacachi Municipality 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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