Wayna Chullunkhäni ( Aymara ''wayna'' young, ''chullunkhä'' ('ä' stands for a long 'a') icicle, ''-ni'' a

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to indicate ownership, meaning "Young Chullunkhäni" or literally "the young one with icicles", Hispanicized spelling ''Huayna Chulluncani'', also ''Huayna Chullcani'') is a mountain in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of

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. It is located in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province,

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. The name of this mountain - where ''wayna'' is sometimes used in the Andes region as an attribute for a neighboring lower mountain - might refer to the Chullkani volcano () west of it which possibly erroneously received that name instead of 'Chullunkhäni'. Another mountain named Wayna Chullunkhäni, also spelled ''(Huayna Chuluncani)'', lies northwest of Chullkani at at a creek named Wayna Chullkani ''(Huayna Chullcani)''.

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Mountains of Oruro Department {{Oruro-geo-stub