Puma Apachita

Puma Apachita
Elevation 4,920 m (16,140 ft)[1]
Location
Location Bolivia,
Cochabamba Department
Range Andes, Tunari mountain range

Puma Apachita (Aymara and Quechua puma cougar, puma, apachita the place of transit of an important pass in the principal routes of the Andes; a stone cairn, a little pile of rocks built along the trail in the high mountains,[2][3][4] hispanicized spelling Puma Apacheta) is a mountain in the Tunari mountain range of the Bolivian Andes, about 4,920 m (16,142 ft) high. It is situated north-west of Cochabamba in the Cochabamba Department, Quillacollo Province, in the west of the Quillacollo Municipality. Puma Apachita lies south-east of the mountain Jatun Q'asa.[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Evelio Echevarría, Cordillera de Cocapata, Bolivia, The Alpine Journal, 1997
  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. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  4. ↑ http://www.illa-a.org/cd/diccionarios/DicAymaraMinEduPeru.odt (Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  5. ↑ "Quillacollo". ine.gob.bo. Retrieved May 22, 2014.