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Kunturiri (
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 ...
''kunturi''
condor Condor is the common name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. The name derives from the Quechua ''kuntur''. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. They are: * The Andean condor (''Vult ...
, ''-(i)ri'' a
suffix In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry ...
, Hispanicized spelling ''Condoriri'') is a mountain in the Cordillera Real of
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, about high. It is also the name of the whole massif. Kunturiri is located in the La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Pukarani Municipality, southeast of
Chachakumani Chachacomani (possibly from Quechua ''chachakuma'' a medical plant) is a mountain in the Cordillera Real of the Andes Mountains, east of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. It is situated in the La Paz Department, Larecaja Province, Guanay Municipality, ...
and northwest of
Huayna Potosí Huayna Potosí is a mountain in Bolivia, located near El Alto and about 25 km north of La Paz in the Cordillera Real. Huayna Potosí is the closest high mountain to La Paz. Surrounded by high mountains, it is roughly 15 miles due ...
. The central part of the Kunturiri group is formed by three peaks which resemble a condor with wings spread: * the Kunturiri itself, also called ''Cabeza de(l) Condor'' (
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for "head of the condor") (), * ''Ala Izquierda'' ("left wing"), ''Ala Norte'' ("north wing") (), the Kunturiri west peak and * ''Ala Derecha'' ("right wing") or ''Ala Sur'' ("south wing") (). Kuchillu Khunu (Aymara ''kuchillu'' knife (from Spanish ''cuchillo''), ''khunu'' snow, "knife snow") is the name of the peak south of the "head of the condor" at . Other peaks in the Kunturiri massif are Pico Reya (), Qallwani (Yugoslavia) () 2 km north of Kunturiri, Wintanani (), Pico Eslovenia (), Pequeño Alpamayo (), Pico Medio (), Ilusión (), Aguja Negra (),
Jist'aña Jist'aña ( Aymara for to close and for to carry bulky packages, also spelled ''Jisthana''), also known as Pirámide Blanca (Spanish for "white piramid"), is a mountain in the Cordillera Real in the Bolivian Andes, about high. It is situated in ...
(), Diente (), Ilusioncita (), Tarija () and Titicaca (). The Spanish names of the peaks do not occur in the maps of the Bolivian IGM ''(Instituto Geográfico Militar)''.Bolivian IGM maps 1:50,000 Khara Khota 5945-IV, Milluni 5945-II and Peñas 5945-III The lakes Ch'iyar Quta and Juri Quta are situated south of the massif.


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Jist'aña Jist'aña ( Aymara for to close and for to carry bulky packages, also spelled ''Jisthana''), also known as Pirámide Blanca (Spanish for "white piramid"), is a mountain in the Cordillera Real in the Bolivian Andes, about high. It is situated in ...


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Mountains of La Paz Department (Bolivia) Glaciers of Bolivia Five-thousanders of the Andes {{LaPazBO-geo-stub