Ccerayoc (possibly from
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 ...
''q'ira'' a species of wild
lupin
''Lupinus'', commonly known as lupin, lupine, or regionally bluebonnet, is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae. The genus includes over 199 species, with centres of diversity in North and South America. Smaller centres occur in No ...
, ''Lupinus platiphyllus'')
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Diagnóstico y Plan Maestro del Santuario Nacional de Ampay (in Spanish): "... "q'era" (Lupinus platiphyllus) ..." is a mountain in the Urubamba 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 ...
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 ...
. 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, in the districts Calca and Lares
Lares ( , ; archaic , singular ) were Tutelary deity#Ancient Rome, guardian deities in ancient Roman religion. Their origin is uncertain; they may have been hero-ancestors, guardians of the hearth, fields, boundaries, or fruitfulness, or an ama ...
. It lies immediately east of Sahuasiray
Sahuasiray (possibly from Quechua ''sawa'' matrimony, ''siray'' to sew,), Sawasiray, Colque Cruz or Ccolque Cruz (possibly from Aymara and Quechua ''qullqi'' silver, money, Spanish ''cruz'' cross, "silver cross"), is one of the highest mountain ...
(Colque Cruz) and northeast of Condorhuachana.[escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Calca Province (Cusco Region)]
See also
* Lares trek
The Lares trek is a two- or three-day high-altitude hike in Cusco, Peru, starting near the village Lares, approximately north of Cusco and east of Machu Picchu. The Lares Valley lies in the east of the Urubamba mountain range, traversing part o ...
References
Five-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Cusco
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