Pacoorcco (Moquegua)

Pacoorcco
Pacoorcco
	Satellite image of the volcano Ubinas (on the left), Pacoorcco (the light-colored complex north-east of it) and Pirhuane (north of Pacoorcco)
Highest point
Elevation	4,940 m (16,210 ft)
Coordinates	16°18′10″S 70°49′2″W / 16.30278°S 70.81722°W
Geography
	Pacoorcco Peru
Location	Peru, Moquegua Region, General Sánchez Cerro Province
Parent range	Andes

Pacoorcco (possibly from Quechua p'aqu blond, fair, a color similar to gold, urqu mountain,^[2] "'blond' or slightly golden mountain") erroneously also Poocoorco, is a 4,940-metre-high (16,207 ft) mountain in the Andes of Peru. The mountain is located in the Moquegua Region, General Sánchez Cerro Province, Ubinas District, north-east of the active volcano Ubinas and south of the mountain Pirhuane.^[3]

References

^ Valoración del Servicio Ambiental de Provisión de Agua con Base en la Reserva Nacional Salinas y Aguada Blanca - Cuenca del Río Chili, PROFONANPE, Lima, 2007
^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
^ escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the General Sánchez Cerro (Moquegua Region)

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[reserva-1] Valoración del Servicio Ambiental de Provisión de Agua con Base en la Reserva Nacional Salinas y Aguada Blanca - Cuenca del Río Chili, PROFONANPE, Lima, 2007

[2] Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.

[map-3] scale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the General Sánchez Cerro (Moquegua Region)

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