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Samaquta
Lake Samaccota ((also known as Laguna Samaccota) possibly from Aymara ''sama'' color, ''quta'' lake) is a lake in Peru located in the Arequipa Region, Caylloma Province, Tisco District Tisco District is one of twenty districts of the province Caylloma in Peru. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the district are listed below: File:Tisco-gate-main-plaza.jpg, Entrance to Tisco's main plaza through its gate File:Iglesia ..., northeast of the mountain named Palca''.''escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Caylloma Province 2 (Arequipa Region) It's estimated terrain above sea level is 4601 meters. See also * Wiswillani References Lakes of Peru Lakes of the Department of Arequipa {{Peru-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tisco District
Tisco District is one of twenty districts of the province Caylloma in Peru. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the district are listed below: File:Tisco-gate-main-plaza.jpg, Entrance to Tisco's main plaza through its gate File:Iglesia-san-pedro-apostol-tisco-church-plaza.jpg, Church of San Pedro Apostol de Tisco, with Plaza in foreground File:Tisco-village-andes-aerial.jpg, The village of Tisco as seen from the air File:Iglesia-san-pedro-apostol-tisco-church-towers.jpg, The towers of Tisco's church Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (86.76%) learnt to speak in childhood, 13.06% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census The 2007 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peruvian population. It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiswillani
Wiswillani (Hispanicized spellings ''Huishuillane, Huishuillani'', erroneously also ''Huishillani'') or Q'asa (Quechua for mountain pass, Hispanicized spelling ''Ccasa'') is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is situated in the Arequipa Region Arequipa () is a department and region in southwestern Peru. It is the sixth largest department in Peru, after Puno, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, its sixth most populous department, and its eleventh least densely populated dep ..., Caylloma Province, on the border of the districts Tisco and Callalli. The mountain lies south of the lake Samaquta.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Caylloma Province 2 (Arequipa Region) By the local people Wiswillani is venerated as an apu.Consuelo Milagros Vasquez Soto, Christian Omar Estrella Canaza, Fragmentos de la Historia del Distrito de Callalli References Five-thousanders of the Andes Mountains of the Department of Arequipa {{Peru-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west, to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country, to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River. Peru has Demographics of Peru, a population of over 32 million, and its capital and largest city is Lima. At , Peru is the List of countries and dependencies by area, 19th largest country in the world, and the List of South American countries by area, third largest in South America. Pre-Columbian Peru, Peruvian territory was home to Andean civilizations, several cultures during the ancient and medieval periods, and has one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arequipa Region
Arequipa () is a department and region in southwestern Peru. It is the sixth largest department in Peru, after Puno, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, its sixth most populous department, and its eleventh least densely populated department. It is bordered by the departments of Ica, Ayacucho, Apurímac and Cusco in the north, the Department of Puno in the east, the Department of Moquegua in the south, and the Pacific Ocean in the west. Its capital, also called Arequipa, is Peru's second-largest city. Geography This department has a rough topography, which is characterised by heavy layers of volcanic lava covering large areas of its inter- Andean sector. It has deep canyons such as the ones formed by the Ocoña and Majes rivers. Plateaus range in height from medium, such as La Joya, and high-altitude ones such the Arrieros Pampa and those located in the zones of Chivay, Huambo and Pichucolla. Volcanic cones, such as Misti, Chachani, Ampato, Mismi, Solima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aymara Language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran languages, Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Indigenous languages of the Americas, Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guarani language, Guaraní. Aymara, along with Spanish language, Spanish and Quechua language, Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a Minority language, recognized minority language. Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua languages, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal feature (linguistics), areal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakes Of Peru
The following is a list of lakes in Peru.Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI)"Compendio Estadistica 2007" page 26 Many of the names have the ending -cocha, from Quechua languages, Quechua ''qucha'': lake. *Acucocha (Pasco), Acucocha *Alcacocha (Pasco), Alcacocha *Lake Arapa, Arapa *Lake Aricota, Aricota *Lake Belaunde, Belaunde *Lake Carpa, Carpa *Lake Chauya, Chauya *Lake Choclococha, Choclococha *Huacachina *Lake Imiria, Imiria *Lake Jucumarini, Jucumarini *Lake Junin, Junin *Quishuar Lakes *Lake Langui Layo, Langui Layo *Lake Lagunillas, Lagunillas *Lake Lauricocha, Lauricocha *Loriscota *Llanganuco Lakes *Lake Marcapomacocha, Marcapomacocha *Mucurca Lake, Mucurca *Palcacocha *Lake Paca, Paca *Lake Pacucha, Pacucha *Lake Parinacochas, Parinacochas *Lake Parón, Parón *Lake Paucarcocha, Paucarcocha *Lake Pelagatos, Pelagatos *Lake Pías, Pías *Lake Pomacanchi, Pomacanchi *Pumacocha (Yauli), Pumacocha *Lake Punrun, Punrun *Lake Querococha, Querococha *La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
