Phaq'u Kiwuta Explained

Phaq'u Kiwuta
Elevation M:5589
Elevation Ref:[1]
Location:Bolivia,
La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Batallas Municipality
Range:Andes, Cordillera Real
Map:Bolivia
Label Position:right
Map Size:250
Coordinates:-16.0881°N -68.3456°W
First Ascent:1-?(cairn found): N.W. face-1971.[2]

Phaq'u Kiwuta (Aymara Aymara: phaq'u, paqu, p'aqu light brown, reddish, blond, dark chestnut, canine tooth or tusk,[3] -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] [4] 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.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cordillera Real Topographical Map, Bolivia. . summitpost.org. August 22, 2014. (north is upper left)
  2. Jill Neate, Mountaineering in the Andes, 1994
  3. http://www.aymara.ucb.edu.bo/html/diccionario/castellano%20aymara/ac.html aymara.ucb.edu.bo
  4. Web site: Batallas. . INE, Bolivia. August 22, 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140826160706/http://www.ine.gob.bo/publicaciones/visorPdf.aspx?Codigo=021203&tipo=1. August 26, 2014.