Yanashallash

Yanashallash
Yanashallash is located in Peru
Yanashallash
Yanashallash
Location within Peru
Highest point
Elevation4,600 m (15,100 ft)
Coordinates9°51′00″S 77°05′17″W / 9.85000°S 77.08806°W / -9.85000; -77.08806
Geography
LocationPeru, Ancash Region
Parent rangeWallanka

Yanashallash, Yanashalla, or Yanashayash (in the regional Quechua spellings, yana black, salla large cliff of gravel; bride, girlfriend, lover, aya corpse, "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.

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.[dead link]
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa (2007). Diccionario Bilingüe: Iskay simipi yuyayk’anch: Quechua – Castellano / Castellano – Quechua (PDF). La Paz, Bolivia: futatraw.ourproject.org.