Panti Usu (

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 ...

''panti'' a type of flower, ''usu'' illness, Hispanicized spelling ''Pantiuso'') 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 southern

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, about high. It lies on a high ridge southeast of Lake Wisk'acha and southwest of the lake Lurisquta. Panti Usu is situated in the

Puno Region Puno () is a department and region in southeastern Peru. It is the fifth largest department in Peru, after Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto. It is bordered by Bolivia on the east, the departments of Madre de Dios on the north, Cusc ...

, El Collao Province, Santa Rosa District, and 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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References

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