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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]
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.
Hualcán [5] [6] [7] (also called Rajopaquinan) (possibly from Quechua wallqa, walqa, [8] [9]-n a suffix) is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about 6,165 metres (20,226 ft) high. [5] [6] It is located in Ancash, between Chacas (in Asunción Province) and Carhuaz (Carhuaz Province) districts. [10]
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...