Pirqasqa

Pirqasqa
Pirqasqa Peru
Highest point
Elevation	5,000 m (16,000 ft)[1]
Coordinates	14°50′12″S 72°25′21″W
Geography
Location	Peru, Arequipa Region, La Unión Province
Parent range	Andes, Wansu

Pirqasqa (Quechua pirqa wall, -sqa a suffix,[2] "stonewalled", hispanicized spelling Perjasja) is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) high. It is situated in the Arequipa Region, La Unión Province, in the northern part of the Puyca District. It lies south of Qullpa K'uchu, west of Kunturillu and southeast of Minasniyuq. The little lake east of Pirqasqa is named Pirqasqaqucha (Perjasjacocha).

The Kunturillu River (Condorillo) originates northwest of the mountain. It flows to the southeast as a right tributary of the Uqururu (Aymara and Quechua for Mimulus glabratus,[3][4] hispanicized Ojoruro). The river is also known as Sumana or Cotahuasi.[1][5] It flows to the Cotahuasi Canyon in the southwest.

References

1. escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the La Unión Province (Arequipa Region)
2. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
3. Guillermo Cutipa Añamuro, Chacra qarpaña: Regando la chacra, IECTA, Iquique - Chile 2005, p. 26
4. Christine Franquemont, Timothy Plowman, Edward Franquemont, Steven R. King, Christine Niezgoda, Wade Davis, Calvin R. Sperling (1990), The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern Peru. Fieldiana Botany, New Series No. 24, 1-126.
5. "South America Maps". Joint Operations Graphic. Retrieved July 23, 2014.