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Chaquicocha (mountain)

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Location
  
Mountain range
  
Elevation
  
4,895 m

Parent ranges
  
Andes, Urubamba Province

Chaquicocha (mountain)

Similar
  
Veronica, Humantay, Huamanchoque, Canchacanchajasa, Chicón

Chaquicocha or Ch'akiqucha (Quechua ch'aki dry, qucha lake, "dry lake", Hispanicized spelling Chaquicocha) is a 4,895-metre-high (16,060 ft) mountain at a little lake of that name in the Urupampa mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, Calca Province, Calca District, and in the Urubamba Province, in the districts of Huayllabamba and Yucay. It lies southwest of Huamanchoque and southeast of Chicon.

The lake named Chaquicocha is in the Yucay District south of the mountain at 13°16′40″S 72°03′01″W. It is about 8 m (26 ft) deep and its area is about two ha. Like Yanacocha ("black lake") south of it Ch'akiqucha is surrounded by woods of qiwña (polylepis).

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Chaquicocha (mountain) Wikipedia


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