Rit'i Apachita

Rit'i Apachita
Rit'i Apachita

Location in Bolivia

Elevation 5,029 m (16,499 ft)[1]
Location
Location Bolivia,
La Paz Department, Franz Tamayo Province, Pelechuco Municipality
Range Andes, Apolobamba
Coordinates 14°44′39″S 69°7′02″W / 14.74417°S 69.11722°WCoordinates: 14°44′39″S 69°7′02″W / 14.74417°S 69.11722°W

Rit'i Apachita (Quechua, rit'i snow, Aymara and Quechua apachita the place of transit of an important pass in the principal routes of the Andes; name in the Andes for a stone cairn, a little pile of rocks built along the trail in the high mountains,[2][3][4] hispanicized spelling Riti Apacheta) is a 5,029 metres (16,499 ft) high mountain in the Apolobamba mountain range in Bolivia. It is situated in the La Paz Department, Franz Tamayo Province, Pelechuco Municipality, north-west of Pelechuco. Rit'i Apachita lies northeast of the mountain Sural (Soral) and southeast of the mountain Apachita Pura Pura.

There is a little lake east of the mountain named Q'illuqucha (Quechua for "yellow lake", Quellucocha).[1][5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 BIGM map 1:50,000 3041 Pelechuco (unnamed, 5029)
  2. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ http://www.illa-a.org/cd/diccionarios/DicAymaraMinEduPeru.odt (Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  5. ↑ "Pelechuco". ine.gob.bo. Retrieved August 30, 2014.