Ch'uwañuma (La Unión)

For the mountain in the Castilla Province, Arequipa Region, Peru, see Ch'uwañuma.
Ch'uwañuma
Ch'uwañuma

Peru

Highest point
Elevation 5,000 m (16,000 ft) [1]
Coordinates 14°59′12″S 72°26′49″W / 14.98667°S 72.44694°W / -14.98667; -72.44694Coordinates: 14°59′12″S 72°26′49″W / 14.98667°S 72.44694°W / -14.98667; -72.44694
Geography
Location Peru, Arequipa Region, La Unión Province
Parent range Andes, Wansu

Ch'uwañuma or Ch'uwañ Uma (Aymara ch'uwaña oozing of water and other liquids / melting of metals and other things, uma water,[2] "oozing water", hispanicized spelling Chuañuma) is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) high. It is located in the Arequipa Region, La Unión Province, Puyca District. It is situated south of the river Uqururu (Aymara and Quechua for Mimulus glabratus,[3][4] hispanicized Ojoruro), also known as Sumana or Cotahuasi,[1][5] which flows to the Cotahuasi Canyon in the southwest. Ch'uwañuma lies southwest of Pilluni, west of Qillqata and northeast of Kunturi.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the La Unión Province (Arequipa Region)
  2. ↑ Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  3. ↑ Guillermo Cutipa Añamuro, Chacra qarpaña: Regando la chacra, IECTA, Iquique - Chile 2005, p. 26
  4. ↑ Christine Franquemont, Timothy Plowman, Edward Franquemont, Steven R. King, Christine Niezgoda, Wade Davis, Calvin R. Sperling (1990), The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern Peru. Fieldiana Botany, New Series No. 24, 1-126.
  5. ↑ "South America Maps". Joint Operations Graphic. Retrieved July 23, 2014.


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