Tauja (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 ...

for heap, pile,) is a mountain 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 ...

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 situated in the Calca Province,

San Salvador District San Salvador District is one of eight districts of the province Calca in Peru. Geography One of the highest peaks of the district is Pachatusan at . Other mountains are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly ind ...

, and in the Paucartambo Province, Caicay District, northeast of

Huaypun Huaypun (possibly from Quechua ''waypu'' a name applied for different species of '' Tinamidae'', '' Nothoprocta pentlandii'', '' Rhynchotus rufescens'' and '' Rhynchotus maculicollis'',Martín R. de la Peña, Diccionario de nombres vulgares de l ...

. The Vilcanota River flows around its southern and western slopes. In the east the mountain is bordered by the Huancamayo (possibly from Quechua for "stone river"). It is a right tributary of the Vilcanota River. The confluence is south of the mountain.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Paucartambo Province (Cusco Region) (unnamed)

References

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

See also

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