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Chankuwaña
Chankuwaña (Aymara language, Aymara for throw something so that people can scramble or fight for it, Hispanicized spelling ''Chancoaña, Chancohuana, Chancohuaña, Chancohuañachico, Chancohuana Chico'') is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range, Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Apurímac Region, Antabamba Province, Oropesa District, Antabamba, Oropesa District, and in the Cusco Region, Chumbivilcas Province, Santo Tomás District, Chumbivilcas, Santo Tomás District, north of the mountain Waytani and southeast of the mountain Wayunka.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Chumbivilcas Province (Cusco Region) See also * Wamanmarka, Chumbivilcas, Wamanmarka References Five-thousanders of the Andes Mountains of the Department of Apurímac Mountains of the Department of Cusco {{Apurimac-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waytani
Waytani (Aymara language, Aymara ''wayta'' headdress made of feathers or flowers, ''-ni'', a suffix to indicate ownership, 'the one with the decoration on the head', Hispanicized spelling ''Huaytane'') is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range, Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Apurímac Region, Antabamba Province, Oropesa District, Antabamba, Oropesa District, in the Arequipa Region, La Unión Province, Peru, La Unión Province, Puyca District, and in the Cusco Region, Chumbivilcas Province, Santo Tomás District, Chumbivilcas, Santo Tomás District, south of the mountain Chankuwaña.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Antabamba Province (Apurímac Region) See also * Chankuwaña * Wamanmarka, Chumbivilcas, Wamanmarka References Five-thousanders of the Andes Mountains of the Department of Apurímac Mountains of the Department of Arequipa Mountains of the Department of Cusco {{Peru-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wansu Mountain Range
The Huanzo mountain range (possibly from in the Quechua spelling ''Wansu'') lies 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 Peru. It extends between 14°30 and 15°01'S and 72°10 and 73°15W for about 57 km.usgs.gov USGS, Peruvian Cordilleras (Note: Coordinates 72°50' might be wrong as Waych'awi is the highest mountain in the range according to this site.)Inventario Nacional de Glaciares y Lagunas, Inventario de Glaciares del Perú, ANA (Autoridad Nacional del Agua), Huaraz 2014 (see sketch map of the Waych'awi glaciar under 'Cordillera Huanzo') It is situated in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oropesa District, Antabamba
Oropesa District is one of the seven districts of the province Antabamba in Peru. Geography The Wansu mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest peaks of the province are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (86.65%) learnt to speak in childhood, 12.79% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census The 2007 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peruvian population. It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Vivie ...). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santo Tomás District, Chumbivilcas
Santo Tomás District is one of eight Districts of Peru, districts of the province Chumbivilcas Province, Chumbivilcas in Peru. Geography The Wansu mountain range, Wansu mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest peaks of the district are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous citizens of Quechua people, Quechua descent. Quechua language, Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (85.05%) learnt to speak in childhood, 14.63% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language, Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish) Climate Se ...
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Wayunka
Wayunka (Quechua for "bunch of bananas", Hispanicized spelling ''Huayunca'') is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru that isTaken from Mountaineering in the Andes by Jill Neate Peru RGS-IBG Expedition Advisory Centre, 2nd edition, May 1994 about high. It is situated in the Apurímac Region, Antabamba Province, Oropesa District, northwest of the mountains Waytani and Chankuwaña Chankuwaña (Aymara language, Aymara for throw something so that people can scramble or fight for it, Hispanicized spelling ''Chancoaña, Chancohuana, Chancohuaña, Chancohuañachico, Chancohuana Chico'') is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range .... References Five-thousanders of the Andes Mountains of the Department of Apurímac {{Peru-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 is long and wide (widest between 18th parallel south, 18°S and 20th parallel south, 20°S latitude) and has an average height of about . The Andes extend from south to north through seven South American countries: Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. Along their length, the Andes are split into several ranges, separated by intermediate depression (geology), depressions. The Andes are the location of several high plateaus—some of which host major cities such as Quito, Bogotá, Cali, Arequipa, Medellín, Bucaramanga, Sucre, Mérida, Mérida, Mérida, El Alto, and La Paz. The Altiplano, Altiplano Plateau is the world's second highest after the Tibetan Plateau. These ranges are in turn grouped into three majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west, to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country, to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River. Peru has Demographics of Peru, a population of over 32 million, and its capital and largest city is Lima. At , Peru is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 19th largest country in the world, and the List of South American countries by area, third largest in South America. Pre-Columbian Peru, Peruvian territory was home to Andean civilizations, several cultures during the ancient and medieval periods, and has one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 , ) is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Sacred Valley of the Andes mountain range and the Huatanay river. It is the capital of the eponymous Cusco Province, province and Cusco Region, department. The city was the cap ...: ** ''Apurimac'' (album) **'' Apurimac II'' **'' Apurimac III'' {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cusco Region
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth-largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de Dios and Puno on the east; Arequipa on the south; and Apurímac, Ayacucho and Junín on the west. Its capital is Cusco, the historical capital of the Inca Empire. Geography The plain of Anta contains some of the best communal cultivated lands of the Department of Cusco. It is located about above sea level and is used to cultivate mainly high altitude crops such as potatoes, tarwi (edible lupin), barley and quinoa. Provinces * Acomayo (Acomayo) * Anta (Anta) * Calca ( Calca) * Canas (Yanaoca) * Canchis (Sicuani) * Chumbivilcas (Santo Tomás) * Cusco (Cusco) * Espinar (Yauri) * La Convención ( Quillabamba) * Paruro ( Paruro) * Paucartambo ( Paucartambo) * Quispicanchi ( Urcos) * Urubamba ( Urubamba) Languages According to the 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aymara Language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran languages, Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Indigenous languages of the Americas, Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guarani language, Guaraní. Aymara, along with Spanish language, Spanish and Quechua language, Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a Minority language, recognized minority language. Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua languages, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal feature (linguistics), areal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
