Parya Chaka (

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 ...

''parya'' reddish, copper or sparrow, ''chaka'' bridge, "reddish (copper or sparrow) bridge", Hispanicized spelling ''Pariachaca'') is a mountain in the south of the Paryaqaqa or Waruchiri mountain range in the

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, about high. It is also the name of a lake near the mountain. The mountain is located in the

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, Huarochirí Province, Quinti District, and in the Yauyos Province,

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. It is situated southwest of Paryaqaqa. It is situated within the borders of the

Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve The Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve () is a protected area in Peru located in the Lima Region, Yauyos Province and in the Junín Region, Jauja Province. It lies with the Peruvian Yungas and Central Andean wet puna ecoregions. Sima Pumaqu ...

. The lake named Parya Chaka is west of the mountain at . It lies in a row between Ch'uspiqucha in the northeast and P'itiqucha in the southwest.

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