Corihuayrachina (Vilcabamba) Explained

Corihuayrachina
Elevation M:	5404
Elevation Ref:	^[1]
Range:	Andes, Vilcabamba
Location:	Peru, Cusco Region
Map:	Peru
Map Size:	200
Coordinates:	-13.3517°N -72.8208°W
Coordinates Ref:	^[2]

Corihuayrachina (possibly from Quechua quri gold, wayrachina a special oven for smelting metal, "oven for smelting gold")^[3] erroneously also Corihuaynachina, is a mountain in the Vilcabamba mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5404m (17,730feet) high. It is situated in the Cusco Region, La Convención Province, Vilcabamba District, at a little lake named Corihuayrachina. Corihuayrachina lies south of the Pumasillo massif and west of Padreyoc.^[4] The archaeological sites of Corihuayrachina^[5] and Choquequirao (possibly from in the Quechua spelling Chuqik'iraw) are west and southwest of the mountain Corihuayrachina.

Notes and References

1. René Pumayalli Saloma, Mapa de Peligros de Desembalses en Santa Teresa, Cusco, en un Contexto de Cambio Climático, 2014
2. Web site: Nevados. . IGN, Peru. August 16, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20150213125725/http://www.ign.gob.pe/index.php?PG=Nomenclatorp&OPC=13&paginasok=5. February 13, 2015. dead.
3. Ricardo N. Alonso, Diccionario minero: glosario de voces utilizadas por los mineros de Iberoamérica, p. 122, see: Huairachina
4. escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the La Convención Province 1 (Cusco Region)
5. Web site: Corihuayrachina or Victoria’s Secret Revealed, A Report of the 2001 National Geographic Society Vilcabamba Expedition. Adventure Specialists. Gary R Ziegler. August 16, 2014. August 11, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150811022031/http://www.adventurespecialists.org/victoria_report.html. dead.