K'ank'awi (

Aymara Aymara may refer to: Languages and people * Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language ** Aymara language, the main language within that family ** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...

''k'ank'a'' opening, gap; crevice, see: ''Grietas o abertura de otras cosas'' ''-wi'' a nominalizing

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to indicate a place, "a place of crevices", Hispanicized spelling ''Cancave'') 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 ...

, Candarave Province,

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. K'ank'awi lies southwest of Larqanku and

Jisk'a Larqanku Iscailarjanco (possibly from Aymara irrigation channel, tendon; nerve, (see: ''Cordon'') '' Larqanku'' a mountain, "little Larqanku") is a mountain in the Andes of southern Peru It is located in the Puno Region, El Collao Province, Santa Ros ...

.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Candarave Province (Tacna Region)

References

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