Aymara
Aymara may refer to:
Languages and people
* Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language
** Aymara language, the main language within that family
** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...
''jach'a'' big, great, ''jawira'' river, "great river", hispanicized spellings ''Jacha Jahuira, Jachcha Jahuira'') which downstream is named Japha Jawira is a Bolivian river east of
Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca (; es, Lago Titicaca ; qu, Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. By volume of water and by surface area, i ...
Batallas Municipality
Batallas Municipality is the third municipal section of the Los Andes Province in the La Paz Department, Bolivia. Its capital is Batallas.
Geography
The Cordillera Real traverses the Batallas Municipality. Some of the highest mountains of ...
Achacachi Municipality
Achacachi Municipality is one of six municipalities of the Omasuyos Province in the La Paz Department in Bolivia. Its seat is Achacachi.
The municipality is situated in the northern Altiplano of the Bolivian Andes region on the eastern shore o ...
. Its waters flow to Lake
Titicaca
Lake Titicaca (; es, Lago Titicaca ; qu, Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. By volume of water and by surface area, i ...
via the Qiqa Jawira.
The river originates in the Cordillera Real from the confluence of streams from Jach'a Pata,
Janq'u Uyu
Janq'u Uyu ( Aymara ''janq'u'' white, ''uyu'' yard for livestock, "white yard", Hispanicized spelling ''Jankho Huyo, Janko Huyo'') is a mountain in the Andes, about 5,512 m (18,084 ft) high, located in the Cordillera Real of Bolivia ...
, Wila Lluxita and Qulin Tuqu near a lake named Janq'u Quta. At first it flows in a southwestern direction connecting the lakes named Janq'u Quta, Quta Thiya, Q'ara Quta and Jichu Quta. After leaving Q'ara Quta it flows almost parallel to the nearby Surikiña River south of it. East of Peñas it turns to the northwest. Southeast of
Achacachi
Achacachi is a town on the Altiplano plateau in the South American Andes in the La Paz Department, Bolivia, La Paz Department in Bolivia. It is the capital of the Omasuyos Province.
History of Achacachi
Achacachi, as an establishment, existed be ...
it unifies with the Qiqa Jawira which reaches Lake Titicaca northwest of the town near the mouth of the Ch'iyar Juqhu River.