Wakapallqa (
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 ...
''waka'' cow (a borrowing from
Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
, ''pallqa, p'allqa'' bifurcation,
hispanicized spelling ''Huagapalca'') is a mountain in the
Andes
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of
Peru
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, about high. It lies in the
Arequipa Region
Arequipa () is a department and region in southwestern Peru. It is the sixth largest department in Peru, after Puno, Cuzco, Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto, its sixth most populous department, and its eleventh least densely populated dep ...
,
Castilla Province,
Andagua District
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. Wakapallqa is situated northeast of
Puma Ranra and southeast of
Usqullu and Usqullu Lake.
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References
Five-thousanders of the Andes
Mountains of the Department of Arequipa
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