Pirqasqa ( Quechua ''pirqa'' wall, ''-sqa'' 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 ...

, "stonewalled", hispanicized spelling ''Perjasja'') is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated 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, in the northern part of the

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 ...

. It lies south of

Qullpa K'uchu Qullpa K'uchu or Qullpak'uchu (Quechua ''qullpa'' salpeter, ''k'uchu'' corner "salpeter corner", Hispanicized spelling ''Cullpacucho'') is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Arequipa ...

, west of Kunturillu and southeast of Minasniyuq. The little lake east of Pirqasqa is named Pirqasqaqucha ''(Perjasjacocha)''. The Kunturillu River ''(Condorillo)'' originates northwest of the mountain. It flows to the southeast as a right tributary of 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''). The river is also known as Sumana or Cotahuasi. It 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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