Yanaorjo (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 ...

''yana'' black, ''urqu'' mountain, "black mountain") is a mountain in the Urubamba mountain range 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 ...

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, about high. It lies 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 ...

, Calca Province,

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. Yanaorjo is situated southeast of

Sahuasiray Sahuasiray (possibly from Quechua ''sawa'' matrimony, ''siray'' to sew,), Sawasiray, Colque Cruz or Ccolque Cruz (possibly from Aymara and Quechua ''qullqi'' silver, money, Spanish ''cruz'' cross, "silver cross"), is one of the highest mountain ...

, south of

Ccerayoc Ccerayoc (possibly from Quechua ''q'ira'' a species of wild lupin, ''Lupinus platiphyllus'')idmaperu.org
Diagnóstico y Plan Maes ...

, north of Ajosune or Aqosune and Apurinru, and northwest of Pumacallanca and

Llamayojcasa Llamayojcasa (possibly from Quechua ''llama'' llama, ''-yuq'' a suffix, ''Llamayuq'' an archaeological site, ''q'asa'' mountain pass, "Llamayuq pass" or "mountain pass with llamas"), also known as Qochaqollur (possibly from Quechua for "lake sta ...

. The two small lakes northeast of Yanaorjo are named Ancascocha (possibly from Quechua for "blue lake") and Suirococha (possibly from Quechua for ''suyru'' a very long dress tracked after when worn, ''qucha'' lake).escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Calca Province (Cusco Region)

References

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