Suyruqucha_(Cajatambo)

Suerococha (Cajatambo)

Suerococha (Cajatambo)

Mountain in Peru

This article is about the mountain and a small lake in the Huarochirí Province, Lima Region, Peru. For other uses, see Suyruqucha.

Suerococha (possibly from Quechua suyru a very long dress tracked after when worn, qucha lake)[2] is a mountain in the south of the Huayhuash mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) high, and the name of a small lake near the mountain. The mountain is located in the Lima Region, Cajatambo Province, Cajatambo District. It lies east of Cuyoc.[1]

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The mountain is named after the lake east of it at 10°23′00″S 76°51′06″W.

References

  1. [1]
    escale.minedu.gob.pe UGEL map of the Bolognesi Province (Ancash Region)
  2. [2]
    Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
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