Phaq'u Kiwuta

Phaq'u Kiwuta
Phaq'u Kiwuta

Location in Bolivia

Highest point
Elevation 5,589 m (18,337 ft)[1]
Coordinates 16°5′17″S 68°20′44″W / 16.08806°S 68.34556°W / -16.08806; -68.34556Coordinates: 16°5′17″S 68°20′44″W / 16.08806°S 68.34556°W / -16.08806; -68.34556
Geography
Location Bolivia,
La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Batallas Municipality
Parent range Andes, Cordillera Real
Climbing
First ascent 1-?(cairn found): N.W. face-1971.[2]

Phaq'u Kiwuta (Aymara phaq'u, paqu, p'aqu light brown, reddish, blond, dark chestnut, kiwu canine tooth or tusk,[3][4] -ta a suffix, other spellings Pacokeuta, Paco Keuta, Pakokiuta, Pakokiwuta) is a mountain in the Andes, about 5,589 m (18,337 ft) high. It is located in the Cordillera Real of Bolivia in the La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Batallas Municipality, Kirani Canton.[1][5] It is situated south-west of the mountain Wila Lluxi, south-east of Warawarani and north of a lake named Quta Thiya in some maps. Other prominent mountains nearby are Jisk'a Pata and Janq'u Uyu in the north, and Wila Lluxita and Mullu Apachita in the north-east, all of them higher than 5,000 m.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Cordillera Real Topographical Map, Bolivia". summitpost.org. Retrieved August 22, 2014. (north is upper left)
  2. Jill Neate, Mountaineering in the Andes, 1994
  3. Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  4. aymara.ucb.edu.bo Aymara-Spanish dictionary
  5. "Batallas". INE, Bolivia. Retrieved August 22, 2014.


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