Pura Purani T'uxu Explained

Pura Purani T'uxu
Elevation M:5416
Elevation Ref:[1]
Location:Bolivia,
La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Pucarani
Range:Andes, Cordillera Real
Map:Bolivia
Label Position:right
Map Size:200
Coordinates:-16.1342°N -68.2925°W
First Ascent:1984[2]

Pura Purani T'uxu or Pura Purani Tuqu (Aymara pura pura Xenophyllum (or a species of it),[3] -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, "the one with the pura pura plant", t'uxu window or tuqu goitre, also spelled Purapurani Thojo) is a 5416m (17,769feet) mountain in the Cordillera Real in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the La Paz Department, Los Andes Province, Pucarani Municipality. It lies northeast of Nasa Q'ara and north of a lake named Allqa Quta. The small lake northwest of the mountain is Khunu Quta ("snow lake").[1] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Lago Khara Kkota Hoja 5945-IV
  2. Taken from Mountaineering in the Andes by Jill Neate, Bolivia, RGS-IBG Expedition Advisory Centre, 2nd edition, May 1994
  3. Jorge Araya-Presa, Francisco A. Squeo, Lina Barrientos, Eliana Belmonte, Manuel Mamani, Gina Arancio, Manual de Plantas y Canciones en Aymara, PROYECTO EXPLORA-CONICYT ED7/02/085: Etnobotánica y Etnomusicología Aymara: Divulgación de la sabiduría ancestral sobre plantas nativas del Altiplano de Arica, Chile, 2003
  4. Web site: Pucarani. . INE, Bolivia. May 19, 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141029154208/http://www.ine.gob.bo/publicaciones/visorPdf.aspx?Codigo=021201&tipo=1. October 29, 2014.