Kunturiri ( Aymara ''kunturi''

condor Condor is the common name for two species of New World vultures, each in a monotypic genus. The name derives from the Quechua language, Quechua ''kuntur''. They are the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. One species, the And ...

, ''-(i)ri'' a

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, Hispanicized spelling ''Condoriri'') is a mountain in the Cordillera Real of

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, about high. It is also the name of the whole

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. Kunturiri is located in the La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Pukarani Municipality, southeast of Chachakumani and northwest of

Huayna Potosí Huayna Potosí is a mountain in Bolivia, located near El Alto and about 25 km north of La Paz in the Cordillera Real (Bolivia), Cordillera Real. Huayna Potosí is the closest high mountain to La Paz. Surrounded by high mountains, it is ...

. The central part of the Kunturiri group is formed by three peaks which resemble a condor with wings spread: * the Kunturiri itself, also called ''Cabeza de(l) Condor'' (

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for "head of the condor") (), * ''Ala Izquierda'' ("left wing"), ''Ala Norte'' ("north wing") (), the Kunturiri west peak and * ''Ala Derecha'' ("right wing") or ''Ala Sur'' ("south wing") (). Kuchillu Khunu (Aymara ''kuchillu'' knife (from Spanish ''cuchillo''), ''khunu'' snow, "knife snow") is the name of the peak south of the "head of the condor" at . Other peaks in the Kunturiri massif are Pico Reya (), Qallwani (Yugoslavia) () 2 km north of Kunturiri, Wintanani (), Pico Eslovenia (), Pequeño Alpamayo (), Pico Medio (), Ilusión (), Aguja Negra (),

Jist'aña Jist'aña ( Aymara for to close and for to carry bulky packages, also spelled ''Jisthana''), also known as Pirámide Blanca ( Spanish for "white piramid"), is a mountain in the Cordillera Real in the Bolivian Andes The Andes ( ), Andes M ...

(), Diente (), Ilusioncita (), Tarija () and Titicaca (). The Spanish names of the peaks do not occur in the maps of the Bolivian IGM ''(Instituto Geográfico Militar)''.Bolivian IGM maps 1:50,000 Khara Khota 5945-IV, Milluni 5945-II and Peñas 5945-III The lakes Ch'iyar Quta and Juri Quta are situated south of the massif. El condoriri

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