Tunka Suka (
Aymara ''tunka'' ten, ''suka''
furrow
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,
"ten furrows", hispanicized spelling ''Tunga Suca'') is a mountain in the
Andes
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of
Peru
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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 ...
,
Canas Province,
Tupac Amaru District. Tunka Suka lies west of a town of that name ''(Tungasuca)'' and southwest of the large lake named ''Tunka Suka Quta'' in Aymara.
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Four-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Cusco
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