Jisk'a Kunturiri (
Aymara
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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 ...
''jisk'a'' little, ''kunturi''
condor
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, ''-ri'' a
suffix
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, ''Kunturiri'' the name of a neighboring mountain, "little Kunturiri", Hispanicized spelling ''Jiskha Condoriri'') is a mountain in the
Andes
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of
Bolivia
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which rises up to . It is situated in the
Oruro Department
Oruro (; Quechua: ''Uru Uru''; Aymara: ''Ururu'') is a department of Bolivia, with an area of . Its capital is the city of Oruro. According to the 2012 census, the Oruro department had a population of 494,178.
Provinces of Oruro
The depar ...
,
Sajama Province
Sajama is a province in the northwestern parts of the Bolivian Oruro Department.
Location
''Sajama'' province is one of the sixteen provinces in the Oruro Department. It is located between 17° 39' and 18° 39' South and between 67° 38' and 68° ...
, Curahuara de Carangas Municipality, Sajama Canton, north-west of the extinct
Sajama volcano.
[ (unnamed, south of ''Laguna Inca Ingenio'')] Kunturi lies south-west of the mountains Jach'a Kunturiri ("big Kunturiri") and Pumuta, north-east of Patilla Pata and the small lake named Ch'iyar Quta and east of the mountain Kunturiri.
The Kunturiri River originates east of the mountain. It flows to the south and then to the east as a tributary of the Sajama River.
See also
* Sajama National Park
Sajama National Park () is a national park located in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. It borders Lauca National Park in Chile. The park is home to the indigenous Aymara people, whose influential ancient culture can be seen in various aspects thr ...
*List of mountains in the Andes
A sortable list of mountains above 4,000 metres in the South American Andes.
Considerations
The list is an incomplete list of mountains in the Andes. There are many named and unnamed peaks in the Andes that are currently not included in this lis ...
References
Mountains of Oruro Department
Five-thousanders of the Andes
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