Cordillera Negra

The Cordillera Negra, Yana Walla in qechua is part of the Cordillera Occidental, one of three mountain ranges in the of west central . It is almost entirely located within the Ancash Region.
Photo: Ed Pax, CC BY 3.0.
  • Type: Mountain with an elevation of 5,004 metres
  • Description: mountain range in Peru
  • Also known as: “Cordillera negra”, “Yana urqukuna”, “Yana Urqukuna”, and “Кордильєра-Негра”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Puka Punta and Qarwaqucha.

Peak
is a mountain in the Cordillera Negra in the of .

Peak
Photo: Ed Pax, CC BY 3.0.
, also known as Qarwa Punta or Flery Punta…

Cordillera Negra

Latitude
-8.96252° or 8° 57′ 45″ south
Longitude
-77.94928° or 77° 56′ 57″ west
Elevation
5,004 metres (16,417 feet)
Open location code
673423P2+X7
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Venetian—“Cordillera Negra” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Bulgarian: “Кордилера Негра”
  • Catalan: “Serralada Negra”
  • Cebuano: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Chinese: “內格拉山脈”
  • Czech: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Dutch: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلسلة جبال بلاك”
  • Esperanto: “Nigra Montaro”
  • French: “Cordillera Negra”
  • French: “Cordillère Noire”
  • German: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Italian: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Japanese: “ネグラ山脈”
  • Ladin: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Lithuanian: “Juodoji Kordiljera”
  • Macedonian: “Кордилјера Негра”
  • Macedonian: “Кордиљера Негра”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Norwegian: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Polish: “Kordyliera Czarna”
  • Quechua: “Yana Walla”
  • Russian: “Кордильера-Негра”
  • Spanish: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Swedish: “Cordillera Negra”
  • Ukrainian: “Кордильєра-Неґра”
  • Venetian: “Cordejera Negra”

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Places to explore: Ancoraca and Huancup.

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Highlights: Laguna Agococha and Simiyuq Wank’a.

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