Kunturi (Ikmaqucha)
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Kunturi ( Aymara for condor, Hispanicized spelling ''Condori'') is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the
Arequipa Region Arequipa ( ay, Ariqipa; qu, Ariqipa) is a department and region in southwestern Peru. It is the sixth largest department in Peru, after Puno, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, its sixth most populous department, and its eleventh least ...
, La Unión Province,
Puyca District Puyca District is one of eleven Districts of Peru, districts of the province La Unión Province, Peru, La Unión in Peru. Geography The Wansu mountain range, Wansu mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest peaks of the district ...
. Kunturi lies east of a lake named
Ikmaqucha Lake Ecma or Lake Igma (possibly from Quechua ''ikma'' widow, ''qucha'' lake) is a lake in the Wansu mountain range in Peru. It lies in the Arequipa Region, La Unión Province, Puyca District Puyca District is one of eleven Districts of Peru, ...
.
Taypi Q'awa Taypi Q'awa (Aymara language, Aymara ''taypi'' center, middle, ''q'awa'' little river, ditch, crevice, fissure, gap in the earth, "middle brook" or "middle ravine", hispanicized spelling ''Taipicahua'') is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range, ...
is the mountain northeast of it. The intermittent streams south of Kunturi flow to the Uqururu (Aymara and Quechua for ''Mimulus glabratus'',Christine Franquemont, Timothy Plowman, Edward Franquemont, Steven R. King, Christine Niezgoda, Wade Davis, Calvin R. Sperling (1990), The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern Peru. Fieldiana Botany, New Series No. 24, 1-126. Hispanicized ''Ojoruro''), also known as Sumana or Cotahuasi, which flows to the
Cotahuasi Canyon Cotahuasi Canyon (from Quechua Kutawasi), near the city of Arequipa in Peru, is one of the deepest canyons in the world. With a depth of approximately , as defined as the difference in elevation at river level and the peak of a mountain alongsid ...
in the southwest.


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