Minasniyuq (

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...

''minas'' mines,

Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, a Native South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language **So ...

''-ni'', ''-yuq''

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 ...

es, "the one with mines", hispanicized spelling ''Minasnioc'') is a mountain in the

Andes The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...

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, 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 ...

Castilla Province Castilla Province is one of eight provinces in the Arequipa Region of Peru. It was named after Ramón Castilla. Geography The Chila mountain range traverses the province. One of the highest mountains of the province is Coropuna at above sea le ...

Andagua District Andagua District is one of fourteen districts of the province Castilla in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informatics" ...

. Minasniyuq lies south of

Wakapallqa Wakapallqa (Quechua ''waka'' cow (a borrowing from Spanish, ''pallqa, p'allqa'' bifurcation, hispanicized spelling ''Huagapalca'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It lies in the Arequipa Region, Castilla Province, Andagua Distric ...

, southwest of

Llallawi Llallawi ( Quechua for a very big potato of singular appearance which used to be elected as a sacrificial offering for divinities, hispanicized spelling ''Llallahue'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Arequip ...

and southeast of Puma Ranra. It is situated at the Q'illu Q'illu valley ''(Jellojello)''.

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