Rit'i Apachita

Rit'i Apachita
Rit'i Apachita

Location in Bolivia

Highest point
Elevation 5,029 m (16,499 ft) [1]
Coordinates 14°44′39″S 69°7′02″W / 14.74417°S 69.11722°W / -14.74417; -69.11722Coordinates: 14°44′39″S 69°7′02″W / 14.74417°S 69.11722°W / -14.74417; -69.11722
Geography
Location Bolivia,
La Paz Department, Franz Tamayo Province, Pelechuco Municipality
Parent range Andes, Apolobamba

Rit'i Apachita (Quechua, rit'i snow, Aymara and Quechua apachita the place of transit of an important pass in the principal routes of the Andes; name in the Andes for a stone cairn, a little pile of rocks built along the trail in the high mountains,[2][3][4] hispanicized spelling Riti Apacheta) is a 5,029 metres (16,499 ft) high mountain in the Apolobamba mountain range in Bolivia. It is situated in the La Paz Department, Franz Tamayo Province, Pelechuco Municipality, north-west of Pelechuco. Rit'i Apachita lies northeast of the mountain Sural (Soral) and southeast of the mountain Apachita Pura Pura.

There is a little lake east of the mountain named Q'illuqucha (Quechua for "yellow lake", Quellucocha).[1][5]

References

  1. 1 2 BIGM map 1:50,000 3041 Pelechuco (unnamed, 5029)
  2. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ http://www.illa-a.org/cd/diccionarios/DicAymaraMinEduPeru.odt (Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  5. ↑ "Pelechuco". ine.gob.bo. Retrieved August 30, 2014.


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