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Q'urawiri (
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 ...
for slinger, someone who catapults something, also spelled ''Qorawiri, Qurawiri'', Hispanicized spelling ''Corahuiri'') is a mountain in the
Andes The Andes ( ), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (; ) are the List of longest mountain chains on Earth, longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range ...
of
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, about high. It is located in the
Apurímac Region Apurímac is the name of: *Apurímac River, a river in the south-eastern parts of central Peru * Department of Apurímac, a region in the south-eastern parts of central Peru *Three albums by the German new-age band Cusco Cusco or Cuzco (; or ...
, Abancay Province,
Circa District Circa (hispanicized spelling of Sirka, Aymara for vein of the body or a mine) is one of the nine districts of the Abancay Province in the Apurímac Region in Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South Americ ...
, and in the Grau Province, Chuquibambilla District. Huch'uy Q'urawiri (
Quechua Quechua may refer to: *Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru *Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
''huch'uy'' small, "little Q'urawiri") is northwest of it.


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Five-thousanders of the Andes Mountains of the Department of Apurímac {{Apurímac-geo-stub