Aqup'ukru (
Quechua
Quechua may refer to:
*Quechua people, several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru
*Quechuan languages, an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language ...
''aqu'' sand, ''p'ukru'' hole, pit, gap in a surface,
"sand hole", Hispanicized spelling ''Acopugro'') is a mountain in the
Andes
The Andes ( ), Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range (; ) are the List of longest mountain chains on Earth, longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range ...
of
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 Pac ...
. It is located in the
Puno Region
Puno () is a department and region in southeastern Peru. It is the fifth largest department in Peru, after Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It is bordered by Bolivia on the east, the departments of Madre de Dios on the north, Cusc ...
,
Lampa Province,
ParatÃa District. Aqup'ukru is situated south of the mountain
Yanawara, west of the lake
Sayt'uqucha and southeast of the mountain
Pachakutiq.
[escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Lampa Province (Puno Region)]
References
Mountains of the Department of Puno
Four-thousanders of the Andes
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