Jatunjasa (possibly from

Quechua Quechua may refer to: *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 ...

''hatun'' big, ''q'asa'' mountain pass, "big mountain pass"), also known as Incachiriasca (possibly from ''Inka''

Inca The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (, ), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The History of the Incas, Inca ...

, ''chiriyasqa'' cooled, "cooled Inca"), is a mountain in the Vilcabamba mountain range 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 ...

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 is located 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 ...

, Anta Province,

Limatambo District Limatambo District is one of nine districts of the province Anta in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Hatun Q'asa at . Other mountains are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigen ...

, and in the Urubamba Province,

Ollantaytambo District Ollantaytambo District is one of seven districts of Urubamba Province in Peru. The town of Ollantaytambo is the capital of the district. Geography The Urupampa and Willkapampa mountain ranges traverse the district. The highest peak of the di ...

. Jatunjasa lies south of

Salcantay Salcantay, Salkantay or Sallqantay (in Quechua languages, Quechua) is the highest peak in the Vilcabamba mountain range, part of the Peruvian Andes. It is located in the Cusco Region, about west-northwest of the city of Cusco. It is the 38th-hi ...

.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Urubamba Province (Cusco Region) Incachiriasca is also the name of the Salcantay glacier at Monitoreo del Glaciar Incachiriasca, SERNANP, Peru, January 2014 between Salcantay and Jatunjasa.

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Five-thousanders of the Andes Mountains of the Department of Cusco {{Cusco-geo-stub