Kunturi (Condesuyos)

Kunturi
Kunturi
Peru
Highest point
Elevation 5,208 m (17,087 ft) [1]
Coordinates 15°1′4″S 72°28′21″W / 15.01778°S 72.47250°W / -15.01778; -72.47250Coordinates: 15°1′4″S 72°28′21″W / 15.01778°S 72.47250°W / -15.01778; -72.47250 
Geography
Location Peru, Arequipa Region, Condesuyos Province, La Unión Province
Parent range Andes, Wansu

Kunturi (Aymara for condor,[2] hispanicized spelling Condori) is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,208-metre (17,087 ft) high. It is situated in the Arequipa Region, Condesuyos Province, Cayarani District, and in the La Unión Province, Puyca District, northeast of the mountain Hatunpata (Atunpata). Kunturi lies south of the river Uqururu (Aymara and Quechua for Mimulus glabratus,[3][4] hispanicized Ojoruro), also known as Sumana or Cotahuasi,[5][6] which flows to the Cotahuasi Canyon in the southwest.

References

  1. ↑ "Cerro Condori". IGN, Peru. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Diccionario Bilingüe, Castellano - Aymara, 2002". Félix Layme Pairumani. Archived from the original on September 2, 2013. Retrieved July 6, 2014.
  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. ↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the La Unión Province (Arequipa Region)
  6. ↑ "South America Maps". Joint Operations Graphic. Retrieved July 6, 2014.


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