Tacune (possibly from Aymara ''taku'' '' Prosopis'' (genus of South American tree) / colored medicinal earth, ''-ni'' 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 ...

to indicate ownership, "the one with the ''taku'' tree" or "the one with medicinal earth") is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated south of

Lake Salinas Lake Salinas is a salt lake in the Arequipa Region in Peru. It is situated in the Arequipa Province, Tarucani District.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the ''Arequipa Sur'' (Arequipa Region) See also * List of lakes in Peru * Pichu Pichu * ...

and east of the mountain

Pichu Pichu Pichu Pichu or Picchu Picchu is an inactive eroded volcano in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Arequipa Region, Arequipa Province, on the border of Pocsi and Tarucani districts.escale.minedu.gob.pe – UGEL map of the Arequipa Province ...

. Tacune 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 ...

Arequipa Province Arequipa is a province in the Arequipa Region, Peru. Its capital, Arequipa, is Peru's second most populous province of Peru. It borders the provinces of Islay, Camaná, Caylloma, and the Cusco and Puno regions. According to INEI in the year 201 ...

, Tarucani District, and in the Moquegua Region, General Sánchez Cerro Province,

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. Tacune is also the name of an intermittent stream which flows from the mountain towards Lake Salinas.

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