Yanashallash

Yanashallash
Yanashallash

Peru

Highest point
Elevation 4,600 m (15,100 ft)[1]
Coordinates 9°51′00″S 77°05′17″W / 9.85000°S 77.08806°W / -9.85000; -77.08806Coordinates: 9°51′00″S 77°05′17″W / 9.85000°S 77.08806°W / -9.85000; -77.08806[2]
Geography
Location Peru, Ancash Region
Parent range Wallanka

Yanashallash, Yanashalla, or Yanashayash (in the regional Quechua spellings, yana black, salla large cliff of gravel; bride, girlfriend, lover, aya corpse,[3][4] "black cliff of gravel", "black bride" or "black corpse") is a mountain in the north of the Wallanka mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about 4,600 m (15,100 ft)) high.

Yanashallash or Yanashayash is also the name of the mountain pass at 4,600 m (15,100 ft)) at the mountain. It connects the towns of Chiquián and Huallanca. The mountain and the pass are located in the Ancash Region, Bolognesi Province, in the districts of Aquia and Huallanca.[1][2]

Sources

  1. 1 2 escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Bolognesi Province (Ancash Region)
  2. 1 2 "Cerro Yanash Allash". IGN, Peru. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  3. Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  4. Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)


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