Pisti Q'asa
Pisti Q'asa is located in Peru
Pisti Q'asa
Pisti Q'asa
Peru
Highest point
Elevation5,000 m (16,000 ft)[1]
Coordinates14°43′21″S 72°44′30″W / 14.72250°S 72.74167°W / -14.72250; -72.74167
Geography
LocationPeru, Arequipa Region, La Unión Province
Parent rangeAndes, Wansu

Pisti Q'asa (Aymara and Quechua pisti influenca, a common cold or plague, Quechua q'asa mountain pass,[2][3][4][5] Hispanicized spelling Pistijasa) is a 5,169-metre-high (16,959 ft) mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Arequipa Region, La Unión Province, Huaynacotas District. Pisti Q'asa lies southwest of Puka Urqu and northwest of P'umpu Q'asa.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the La Unión Province (Arequipa Region)
  2. Yatiqirinaka Aru Pirwa, Lima, 2005 (Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  3. Ina Vandebroek, Evert Thomas, Sabino Sanca, Patrick Van Damme, Luc Van Puyvelde, Norbert De Kimpe, Comparison of health conditions treated with traditional and biomedical health care in a Quechua community in rural Bolivia, J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2008; 4: 1
  4. Gary Parker and others, English-Quechua Dictionary--Cuzco, Ayacucho, Cochabamba, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1064 (see: Plague)
  5. 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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