Phaq'u Q'awa (Sabaya)

Phaq'u Q'awa
Phaq'u Q'awa
Location in Bolivia
Highest point
Elevation 5,203 m (17,070 ft) [1]
Coordinates 18°49′04″S 68°48′07″W / 18.81778°S 68.80194°W / -18.81778; -68.80194Coordinates: 18°49′04″S 68°48′07″W / 18.81778°S 68.80194°W / -18.81778; -68.80194 
Geography
Location Bolivia
Parent range Andes, Cordillera Occidental

Phaq'u Q'awa is a 5,203-metre-high (17,070 ft) mountain in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of Bolivia. It is situated in the Oruro Department, Sabaya Province, Sabaya Municipality. Phaq'u Q'awa lies southeast of Wila Qullu.

The river Phaq'u Q'awa (Pacocahua) originates southwest of the mountain. It flows to the north as a right tributary of the Lauca River.[1][2]

Name

Phaq'u Q'awa derives from Aymara language terms phaq'u, paqu,or p'aqu meaning the color light brown, reddish, fair-haired, or dark chestnut, and q'awa meaning little river, ditch, crevice, fissure, or gap in the earth,[3][4] the name thus meaning "brown brook" or "brown ravine". The Hispanicized spelling is Pacocahua or Pajojañua.[5][6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 Bolivian IGM map 1:250,000 Corque SE-19-11
  2. ↑ "Sabaya". Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  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. ↑ "Diccionario Bilingüe, Castellano - Aymara, Para: Tercera Edición". Félix Layme Pairumani. Retrieved October 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Candarave Province (Tacna Region)
  6. ↑ 00033-2009-AI - Tribunal Constitucional del Perú, October 2009
  7. ↑ Peru 1:100,000, Hospicio 2837, Map prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center, Bethesda, MD


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