Capacsaya,
Ccapacsaya
(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 ...
''qhapaq'' mighty, ''saya'' slope,
"mighty slope"), Media Luna
or Huayurioc
is a mountain in the
Urubamba mountain range in the
Andes
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of
Peru
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, about high.
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,
Lares District
Lares District is one of eight districts of the province Calca in Peru.
Geography
The Urupampa mountain range traverses the district. One of the highest peaks of the district is Sawasiray at . Other mountains are listed below:
Ethnic grou ...
, and in the
Urubamba Province,
Urubamba District
Urubamba District is one of seven districts of the Urubamba province in 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 so ...
. Capacsaya lies northwest of
Chicón and east of
Pumahuanca
Pumahuanca, Pumahuanja (possibly from Quechua ''puma'' cougar, puma, ''wank'a'' rock, "puma rock") or Yucay is a mountain in the Urubamba mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, on the boundary between Calca and ...
, near Pumahuancajasa pass.
References
Five-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Cusco
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