Challwaqucha (
Quechua
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*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 ...
'fish', 'lake',
"fish lake", Hispanicized spelling ''Chalhuacocha'') is a mountain in the
Andes
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of
Peru
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, about high, with a small lake of the same name. It is located in the
Junín Region Junín may refer to:
Places Argentina
* Junín Partido
** Junín, Buenos Aires
*** Junín Airport
* Junín Department, Mendoza
** Junín, Mendoza
* Junín Department, San Luis
* Junín de los Andes, Neuquén
Colombia
* Junín, Cundinamarca
* ...
,
Yauli Province,
Morococha District
Morococha District is one of ten districts of the province Yauli in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática
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, southwest of
Yawarqucha and
Yuraqqucha
Yurajcocha (possibly from Quechua ''yuraq'' white, ''qucha'' lake, "white lake"), Tintayari or Huampuni (possibly from Aymara ''wampu'' boat, ''-ni'', a suffix, "the one with a boat") is a lake in Peru located in the Junín Region Junín may refe ...
.
[escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Yauli Province (Junín Region)]
The mountain is named after a little lake on its western slope
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References
Five-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Junín
Lakes of Peru
Lakes of the Department of Junín
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