Muqu Wasi (
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 ...
''muqu'' hill, ''wasi'' house,
"hill house", Hispanicized spelling ''Mojo Huasi'') is a mountain 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 ...
, about high. It is situated in the
Ayacucho Region
Ayacucho (), known as Huamanga from its creation in 1822 until 1825, is a department and region of Peru, located in the south-central Andes of the country. Its capital is the city of Ayacucho. The region was one of the hardest hit in the 1980 ...
,
Cangallo Province,
Totos District, northeast of Totos. Muqu Wasi lies west of
Kiswara, east of
Huch'uy Puka Q'asa and southeast of
Chawpi Urqu
Chaupi Orco (possibly from the Quechua spelling ''Chawpi Urqu''; ''chawpi'' middle, center, ''urqu'' mountain) or Viscachani (possibly from the Aymara 'wisk'acha'' viscacha)'' is a mountain in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It has ...
.
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References
Four-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Ayacucho
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