The Cordillera Carabaya (Spanish for "Carabaya mountain range") lies 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 extends between 14°00' and 14°22'S and 69°38' and 70°19'W for about 75 km. It is located in the
Puno Region
Puno () is a department and region in southeastern Peru. It is the fifth largest department in Peru, after Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It is bordered by Bolivia on the east, the departments of Madre de Dios on the north, Cusc ...
,
Carabaya Province, between the
Vilcanota mountain range in the north-west and the
Apolobamba mountain range in the south-east, north and north-east of
Macusani.
Mountains
The highest peak in the range is
Allincapac at . Other mountains are listed below:
[Taken from Mountaineering in the Andes by Jill Neate RGS-IBG Expedition Advisory Centre, 2nd edition, May 1994][Michael Cocker, Frost, Dust and Tear Gas, Exploratory Mountaineering in the Peruvian Cordillera Carabaya, in: Alpine Journal 2008, p. 53-69][allthemountains.com Maps of the Eastern Andes of Peru including two maps of the Carabaya mountain range (inactive website)]
See also
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Chaupicocha
*
Kallawaya
The Kallawaya are an indigenous group living in the Andes of Bolivia. They live in the Bautista Saavedra Province and Muñecas Province of the La Paz Department but are best known for being an itinerant group of traditional healers that t ...
References
Mountain ranges of Peru
Mountain ranges of the Department of Puno
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