Jach'a Jawira (La Paz-Oruro)
| Jach'a Jawira | |
|---|---|
| Etymology | La Paz Department, Oruro Department |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Loayza Province |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Qallun Uma, Wich'inka Jawira, Wari Umaña, Ch'iyar Jawira |
| • right | Urnuni |
Jach'a Jawira (
La Paz Department and in the Oruro Department. Its waters flow towards Uru Uru Lake
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The river originates near the mountain
La Paz Department, Loayza Province, Yaco Municipality. Its direction is to the south while it flows along the border of the Ichoca Municipality of the Inquisivi Province and the Yaco Municipality. Some of its affluents are Ch'iyar Jawira ("black river", Chiar Jahuira), Wari Umaña (Wari Umana) and Wich'inka Jawira ("tail river", Huichinca Jahuira) from the left and Urnuni (Hornum, Hornuni) from the right. After Qallun Uma (Callun Uma), a left tributary, reaches Jach'a Jawira in the Caracollo Municipality of the Cercado Province the river is named Q'ara Qullu ("bare mountain", Caracollo). Within the municipality it later receives the name Waña Jawira ("dry river", Huana Jahuira).[2][3][4][5]
References
- ^ Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
- ^ Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Puchuni 6142-III
- ^ Bolivian IGM map 1:100,000 Colquiri 3436-I
- ^ "Yaco". INE, Bolivia. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
- ^ "Caracollo". INE, Bolivia. Archived from the original on November 27, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
