Llimphiq (

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 ...

''llimphi, llimp'i'' a painting / the color for painting, ''-q'' 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 ...

"painted" or "painter", Hispanicized spelling ''Llempic'') is a mountain in the Wansu 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 ...

, about high. It is located in the

Arequipa Region Arequipa () is a department and region in southwestern Peru. It is the sixth largest department in Peru, after Puno, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, its sixth most populous department, and its eleventh least densely populated dep ...

, La Unión Province,

Puyca District Puyca District is one of eleven districts of the province La Unión in Peru. Geography The Wansu mountain range traverses the district. Some of the highest peaks of the district are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district a ...

. It lies southwest of the lakes named Ikmaqucha and Huch'uyqucha (Quechua for "small lake", ''Uchuycocha'').

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

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