Wayna Chullunkhäni | |
Elevation M: | 4736 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Location: | Bolivia Oruro Department |
Range: | Andes, Cordillera Occidental |
Map: | Bolivia |
Label Position: | right |
Map Size: | 200 |
Coordinates: | -18.3083°N -68.8075°W |
Wayna Chullunkhäni (Aymara wayna young, chullunkhä ('ä' stands for a long 'a') icicle, -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, meaning "Young Chullunkhäni" or literally "the young one with icicles", Hispanicized spelling Huayna Chulluncani, also Huayna Chullcani)[1] is a 4736adj=midNaNadj=mid mountain in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Turco Municipality.
The name of this mountain - where wayna is sometimes used in the Andes region as an attribute for a neighboring lower mountain - might refer to the Chullkani volcano (5032m (16,509feet)) west of it which possibly erroneously received that name instead of 'Chullunkhäni'.[1]
Another mountain named Wayna Chullunkhäni, also spelled (Huayna Chuluncani), lies northwest of Chullkani at at a creek named Wayna Chullkani (Huayna Chullcani).[1]