Wamp'una

Wamp'una

Wamp'una

Mountain in Peru

For the Quechua variety called Wamp'una, see Quechuan languages.

Wamp'una (Quechua wamp'u boat, -na a suffix,[2] also spelled Huampuna) is a mountain in the Cordillera Central in the Andes of Peru, about 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) high. It contains one of the highest surveyed caves in the word, Qaqa Mach'ay.[3] Wamp'una is located in the Lima Region, Yauyos Province, on the border of the districts of Huantán and Laraos. It lies southwest of T'uruyuq, southeast of the lake named Pumaqucha.[4] It is situated on the southern border of the Nor Yauyos-Cochas Landscape Reserve.[5]

Quick Facts Highest point, Elevation ...

See also

References

  1. [1]
    mapcarta.com "Cerro Huampuna", retrieved on September 22, 2013
  2. [2]
    Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
  3. [3]
    members.shaw.ca Some Cave Statistics
  4. [4]
    escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Yauyos Province (Lima Region)
  5. [5]
    ParksWatch, Park Profile - Peru Nor Yauyos – Cochas Landscape Reserve, p. 6


Stub icon 2

This Lima Region geography article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Wamp'una, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.