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Yuraq Wayruru

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Location
  
Peru, Puno Region

Elevation
  
5,000 m

Yuraq Wayruru

Mountain range
  
Andes, Cordillera Vilcanota

Parent ranges
  
Andes, Cordillera Vilcanota

Yuraq Wayruru (Quechua yuraq white, wayruru a type of tree, Aymara wayruru red and black seeds of a plant (Abrus precatorius, Ormosia coccinea or Ormosia minor); also meaning something very beautiful, "white wayruru", hispanicized spelling Yurac Huayruro) is a mountain in the Willkanuta mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) high. It is located in the Puno Region, Carabaya Province, Corani District, northeast of the large glaciated area of Rit'ipampa (Quechua for "snow plain"). Yuraq Wayruru lies northwest of Tarujani and Jach'a Tira and northeast of Khunurana.

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Yuraq Wayruru Wikipedia