Chichicapac
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| Chichicapac | |
|---|---|
  Chichicapac Peru | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 5,614 m (18,419 ft)[1] |
| Coordinates | 13°56′40″S 70°22′00″W / 13.94444°S 70.36667°W |
| Geography | |
| Location | Peru, Puno Region |
| Parent range | Andes, Carabaya |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1-1959: S. face-1974[1] |
Chichicapac (possibly from Quechua ch'ichi shoot; dirt, dirty, chichi naked; udder full of milk; gold powder, qhapaq the mighty one,[2][3][4][5] Hispanicized spellings Chichicapac, Chichiccapac, Chichicápac, Chichijapac, Chichi Cápac) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru.[6] It is one of the highest peaks of the Carabaya mountain range rising up to 5,614 metres (18,419 ft). Chichicapac is located in the Puno Region, Carabaya Province, on the border of the districts of Ayapata and Macusani. It lies southeast of the higher mountains Huaynaccapac and Allincapac[7] and northeast of the lake Chaupicocha.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Taken from Mountaineering in the Andes by Jill Neate RGS-IBG Expedition Advisory Centre, 2nd edition, May 1994
- ^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
- ^ "Diccionario: Quechua - Español - Quechua, Simi Taqe: Qheswa - Español - Qheswa" (PDF). Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua. Gobierno Regional del Cusco, Perú: Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua. 2005.
- ^ Apurimaqpaq Runasimi Taqe (Apurímac Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
- ^ Ricardo N. Alonso, Diccionario minero: glosario de voces utilizadas por los mineros de Iberoamérica, p. 85, see: Chiche
- ^ lib.utexas.edu Map of the area
- ^ Michael Cocker, Frost, Dust and Tear Gas, Exploratory Mountaineering in the Peruvian Cordillera Carabaya, in: Alpine Journal 2008, p. 53-69
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