Pachakutiq (

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''pacha'' time, space, ''kuti'' return, "return of time", "change of time", ''pacha kuti'' "great change or disturbance in the social or political order", ''-q'' a

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, '' Pachakutiq'' an Inca emperor, Hispanicized spelling ''Pachacútec'') is a mountain in the

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, about high. 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 ...

, Calca Province, on the border of the districts Calca and

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. Pachakutiq is situated east of the Urupampa mountain range. It lies north-east of the mountain Q'irayuq and south-west of the mountains Yanaqaqa and Chhullunkunayuq.

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