Kunturi (Ikmaqucha)

Kunturi (Aymara for condor,[2] Hispanicized spelling Condori) 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. Kunturi lies east of a lake named Ikmaqucha. Taypi Q'awa is the mountain northeast of it. The intermittent streams south of Kunturi flow to the 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.

This article is about the mountain near Ikmaqucha in the Puyca District, La Unión Province, Arequipa Region, Peru. For other uses, see Kunturi.
Kunturi
Kunturi is located in Peru
Kunturi
Kunturi
Peru
Highest point
Elevation5,000 m (16,000 ft)[1]
Coordinates14°53′09″S 72°28′22″W
Geography
LocationPeru, Arequipa Region, La Unión Province
Parent rangeAndes, Wansu

References
  1. escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the La Unión Province (Arequipa Region)
  2. "Diccionario Bilingüe, Castellano - Aymara, 2002". Félix Layme Pairumani. Archived from the original on September 2, 2013. Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  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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