Choquetacarpo
Quechua
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''chuqi'' metal, every kind of precious metal / gold (Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) "metal nail" or "metal stake") is a
high mountain in the
Vilcabamba mountain range in the
Andes
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of
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. It is located in the
Cusco Region
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,
La Convención Province
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* La (musical note), or A, the sixth note
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, in the districts
Santa Teresa and
Vilcabamba. Choquetacarpo lies northwest of the
Pumasillo peak. The little river Moyoc ''(Muyuq)'' originates east of the mountain. It flows to the south as an affluent of the Yanama River.
See also
*
Padreyoc
References
Five-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Cusco
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