Pumahuanca

Pumahuanca
Pumahuanja, Yucay

Pumahuanca as seen from Killaqucha northeast of it
Highest point
Elevation 5,318 m (17,448 ft)
Coordinates 13°11′17″S 72°08′16″W / 13.18806°S 72.13778°W / -13.18806; -72.13778Coordinates: 13°11′17″S 72°08′16″W / 13.18806°S 72.13778°W / -13.18806; -72.13778
Geography
Pumahuanca

Peru

Location Peru
Parent range Andes, Urubamba
Climbing
First ascent 1-1958 from west[1]

Pumahuanca,[2][1] Pumahuanja[3] (possibly from Quechua puma cougar, puma, wank'a rock, "puma rock")[4] or Yucay[1] is a 5,318-metre-high (17,448 ft)[3] mountain in the Urubamba mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Cusco Region, on the boundary between Calca and Urubamba provinces, northwest of Urubamba.[5] It lies northwest of Chicón and west of Capacsaya.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jill Neate, Mountaineering in the Andes, 1994 "Cordillera Urubamba, Nudo Yucay: Yucay (Pumahuanca, Manuel Grau) 5650m: 1-1958 from west."
  2. ↑ Shimada, Izumi, ed. (2015). The Inka Empire: A Multidisciplinary Approach. University of Texas Press. pp. 126–127.
  3. 1 2 3 Peru 1:100 000, Urubamba (27-r). IGN (Instituto Geográfico Nacional - Perú).
  4. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  5. ↑ "Mapa UGEL Calca" (PDF). Mapas DRE y UGEL. ESCALE - Ministerio de Educación - Perú. 2010. Retrieved 2016-07-15.


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