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Wachwa Runtuna (
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 ...
''wachwa''
Andean goose The Andean goose (''Chloephaga melanoptera'') is a species of waterfowl in tribe Tadornini of subfamily Anserinae.HBW and BirdLife International (2021) Handbook of the Birds of the World and BirdLife International digital checklist of the birds ...
, ''runtu'' egg, ''-na'' a suffix, "where the Andean goose lays eggs", also spelled ''Huachhua Runtuna'') 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 ...
which reaches a height of approximately . It is located 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, ...
, Yauyos Province, on the border of the districts of
Alis Alis may refer to: People * Alis (given name) * Román Alís (1931–2006), Spanish composer * Abdulla Aliş (1908–1944), Soviet writer Places * Alis, Greece * Alis District, Yauyos, Lima, Peru Other uses * ''Alis'' (film), a 2022 docum ...
and
Tomas Tomas may refer to: People * Tomás (given name), a Spanish, Portuguese, and Gaelic given name * Tomas (given name), a Swedish, Dutch, and Lithuanian given name * Tomáš, a Czech and Slovak given name * Tomàs, a Catalan given name and surname * ...
, south of Tomas.


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Five-thousanders of the Andes Mountains of the Department of Lima {{LimaRegion-geo-stub