Canchacanchajasa (possibly from
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 ...
''kancha'' enclosure, enclosed place, yard, a frame, or wall that encloses, ''q'asa'' mountain pass,
[Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)] the
reduplication
In linguistics, reduplication is a Morphology (linguistics), morphological process in which the Root (linguistics), root or Stem (linguistics), stem of a word, part of that, or the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.
The cla ...
indicates that there is a group or a complex of something, "Cancha Cancha mountain pass") is a mountain in the
Urubamba mountain range 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
Cusco Region
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (; ), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth-largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It borders the departments of Ucayali on the north; Madre de Dios and Puno ...
,
Calca Province,
Calca District, north of the
Urubamba River
The Urubamba River or Vilcamayo River (possibly from Quechua ''Willkamayu'', for "sacred river") is a river in Peru. Upstream it is called Vilcanota River (possibly from Aymara ''Willkanuta'', for "house of the sun"). Within the La Convención ...
. Canchacanchajasa is situated southeast of
Sirihuani, north of Cóndorhuachana and
Huamanchoque and southwest of
Sahuasiray. It lies in the upper part of the Cancha Cancha valley
[escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Calca Province (Cusco Region)] ''(kancha kancha)'' at the
Lares trek.
See also
*
Pucaorjo
References
Four-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Cusco
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