Huaypun (possibly from
Quechua ''waypu'' a name applied for different species of ''
Tinamidae'', ''
Nothoprocta pentlandii'', ''
Rhynchotus rufescens'' and ''
Rhynchotus maculicollis'',
[Martín R. de la Peña, Diccionario de nombres vulgares de las Aves de Argentina, Serie Naturaleza, Conservación y Sociedad, No. 1, 2011][Juan Carlos Chebez, Alejandro Mouchard, Lucas Rodríguez, Ornitonimia popular y científica de las aves argentinas II.
(Tinamiformes, Sphenisciformes y Podicipediformes), in Nótulas Faunísticas, Segunda Serie, 65, 2011, see p. 5: ''Rhynchotus maculicollis Gray, 1867'' (''guaipo, huaipo, guaypo, waypo'' (QU))] ''-n'' a
suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can ca ...
) is a mountain 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 ...
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 southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
, about high. It is situated in the
Calca Province,
San Salvador District
San Salvador District is one of eight districts of the province Calca in Peru.
Geography
One of the highest peaks of the district is Pachatusan at . Other mountains are listed below:
Ethnic groups
The people in the district are mainly ind ...
, and in the
Quispicanchi Province,
Oropesa District.
[ Huaypun lies on the western bank of the Vilcanota River, southeast of ]Pachatusan
Pachatusan ( Quechua ''pacha'' earth, ''tusa'', a prop to support a wall or building, ''pachatusa'' prop of the earth, ''-n'' a suffix) is a mountain northeast of the city of Cusco in the Andes of Peru, about high. It is located in the Cusco Reg ...
and southwest of Tauja.
See also
* Pumacancha
* Curi
References
Four-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Cusco
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