Utush Mikhunan (
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 ...
''utush'' a plant of the family Asteraceae, ''mikhuna'' meal, ''-n'' a
suffix
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,
Hispanicized spelling ''Otoshmicunan'') is a mountain in the
Cordillera Central Central Cordillera refers to the New Guinea Highlands.
Cordillera Central, meaning ''central range'' in Spanish, may refer to the following mountain ranges:
* Cordillera Central, Andes (disambiguation), several mountain ranges in South America
** ...
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 lies in the
Lima Region
The Department of Lima (), known as the Department of the Capital () until 1823, is a department and region located in the central coast of Peru; the seat of the regional government is Huacho.
Lima Province, which contains the city of Lima, ...
,
Huarochirí Province, on the border of the districts of
San Damian and
San Mateo. Utush Mikhunan is situated northwest of
Uqhu and
Suyruqucha.
[escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Huarochirí Province (Lima Region)]
References
Five-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Lima
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