Pisqan Punta
| Pisqan Punta | |
|---|---|
Pisqan Punta Peru | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 4,800 m (15,700 ft)[1] |
| Coordinates | 10°03′47″S 77°00′42″W / 10.06306°S 77.01167°W |
| Geography | |
| Location | Peru, Ancash Region |
| Parent range | Andes, Wallanka |
Pisqan Punta (Quechua pichqa, pisqa five, -n a suffix, punta peak; ridge,[2][3][4] hispanicized spelling Pisccanpunta, Pisjanpunta) is a mountain in the southernmost part of the Wallanka mountain range in the Andes of Peru which reaches an altitude of approximately 4,800 m (15,700 ft). It is located in the Ancash Region, Bolognesi Province, Huasta District. Pisqan Punta lies at the Quntayqucha valley, southwest of a lake named Quntayqucha.[1]
Name
The name Pisqan Punta derives from the Quechua language, where pisqa (or pichqa) means “five”, and the suffix -n is often used as a grammatical ending. The word punta means “peak”, “ridge”, or “point”.
Thus, the name can be interpreted as “the fifth peak” or “the peak of five”.[5]
References
- ^ a b escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Bolognesi Province (Ancash Region)
- ^ "Diccionario: Quechua - Español - Quechua, Simi Taqe: Qheswa - Español - Qheswa" (PDF). Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua. Gobierno Regional del Cusco, Perú: Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua. 2005.
- ^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.
- ^ David Weber, A Grammar of Huallaga (Huánuco) Quechua, University of California Press, p. 185
- ^ "Quechua/WordEnQu/Cat/Numbers - Wikibooks, open books for an open world". en.wikibooks.org. Retrieved 2025-11-06.