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Juanjo Tomé, Escaladas en los Andes - Guía de la Cordillera Blanca, Madrid: Desnivel Ediciones, 1999, ISBN 978-8489969438 Lefebvre, Thierry, L’invention occidentale de la haute montagne andine, M@ppemonde Vol. 19 (2005).
The Cordillera Blanca is the most extensive tropical ice-covered mountain range in the world and has the largest concentration of ice in Peru. [1] It is part of the Cordillera Occidental (the westernmost part of the Peruvian Andes), and trends in a northwesterly direction for 200 km between 8°08' and 9°58'S of latitude and 77°00' and 77°52' W of longitude. [1]
Uruashraju [2] [3] (possibly from the regional Quechua spelling, urwa infertile, sterile; corn plant without corncob used as fodder, [4] rahu snow, ice, mountain with snow) [5] or Verdecocha [6] (possibly from Spanish verde green, Quechua qucha lake, "green lake") is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca of the Andes of Peru, about 5,722 metres (18,773 ft) high.
Chacraraju [5] [1] [6] [7] or Chakraraju [8] (possibly from Quechua chakra little farm; field, land sown with seed, rahu snow, ice, mountain with snow) [9] [10] [11] is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca range in the Andes of Peru.
Vallunaraju [1] [2] or Wallunaraju [3] [2] (possibly from Ancash Quechua walluy to cut, [4] wallu earless, someone whose ears are amputated [5]-na a nominalising suffix, Quechua rahu snow, ice, mountain with snow, [6]) is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about 5,686 metres (18,655 ft) high [3] [1] and located in Huaraz Province, Ancash.
Copa is also named Chucushcaraju [4] (possibly from Quechua chukuy to make someone put a headdress on / crouch, bend down, -sqa a suffix, rahu snow, ice, mountain with snow, [7] [9] [10] "headdressed mountain with snow" or "crouched mountain with snow"), Pamparaju [11] (possibly from Quechua pampa a large plain, [7] "plain mountain with snow") or Carhuacatac [12] (possibly from Quechua qarwa ...
Palcaraju [1] [2] [3] (from Quechua pallqa, p'allqa, p'alqa forked, branched, fork, [4] [5] [1] rahu snow, ice, mountain with snow, [6] [1]) is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range in the region of Ancash within the Peruvian Andes. It has an elevation of 6,274 metres (20,584 ft) on its main summit.
The Cordillera of Dreams (Spanish: La cordillera de los sueños / French: La Cordillère des songes) is a 2019 Chilean-French documentary film directed by Patricio Guzmán. It is considered the third installment in a trilogy of films by Guzmán about his native country, Chile, alongside Nostalgia for the Light (2010) and The Pearl Button (2015 ...