Chillihua (possibly from

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for a species of grass ''(

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)'') is a mountain in the

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of southern

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, about high. It is located in the

Tacna Region Tacna (; Aymara language, Aymara and Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''Taqna'') is the southernmost Regions of Peru, department and Regional Government of Tacna, region in Peru. The Chilean Army occupied the present-day Tacna Department during the W ...

, Tarata Province,

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. Chillihua lies southwest of the lakes Vilacota and Lake Neque ("mud lake").

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Mountains of the Department of Tacna Four-thousanders of the Andes {{Tacna-geo-stub