Wayna Chullunkhäni

Wayna Chullunkhäni
Wayna Chullunkhäni

Bolivia
Oruro Department

Highest point
Elevation 4,736 m (15,538 ft) [1]
Coordinates 18°18′30″S 68°48′27″W / 18.30833°S 68.80750°W / -18.30833; -68.80750Coordinates: 18°18′30″S 68°48′27″W / 18.30833°S 68.80750°W / -18.30833; -68.80750
Geography
Location Bolivia
Oruro Department
Parent range Andes, Cordillera Occidental

Wayna Chullunkhäni (Aymara wayna young, chullunkhä ('ä' stands for a long 'a') icicle,[2] -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, meaning "Young Chullunkhäni" or literally "the young one with icicles", hispanicized spelling Huayna Chulluncani, also Huayna Chullcani)[1][3] is a 4,736 m (15,538 ft) high mountain in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of Bolivia. It is located in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Turco Municipality.[4]

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 (5,032 m (16,509 ft)) 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 18°14′57″S 68°51′22″W / 18.24917°S 68.85611°W / -18.24917; -68.85611 at a creek named Wayna Chullkani (Huayna Chullcani).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Estancia Laguna Hoja 5839-III
  2. ↑ Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  3. ↑ Gabriela Vargas-Mattos, Mauro César Geraldes, Ramiro Matos Salinas, Reconstrucción geológica del volcán Chullcani (mioceno superior a plioceno superior): Consideraciónes generales sobre geoquímica y edad de las fases volcánicas, Andes Centrales de Bolivia, Revista Brasileira de Geociências, 12/2006
  4. ↑ "Turco". Retrieved January 14, 2016.
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