Apachita, Mountain summit in Sur Lípez Province, Bolivia.
Apachita is a mountain peak located within the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve in the Cordillera Occidental range. The summit sits at high elevation and is accessible via hiking trails that cross through the protected landscape.
The name Apachita comes from Aymara, for a stone cairn piled along high-mountain trails and for a place of transit on an important Andean pass. The mountain lies in San Pablo de Lípez Municipality, Sur Lípez Province, Potosí Department, near the Chilean border and east of Michina, inside the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve.
The name Apachita comes from Aymara and denotes a stone cairn, a little pile of rocks built along high-mountain trails, and by extension a place of transit on an important Andean pass. The mountain lies near the Chilean border in San Pablo de Lípez Municipality, Sur Lípez Province, Potosí Department.
Apachita lies in San Pablo de Lípez Municipality, Sur Lípez Province, Potosí Department, near the Chilean border and east of Michina, inside the Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve. Access is overland from the reserve side; the summit is reached on foot. The sources give no marked trail, so plan navigation and altitude acclimatisation yourself.
The name Apachita comes from Aymara, where it denotes a stone cairn piled along high-mountain trails and the transit of an important Andean pass. The mountain stands east of Michina, near the Chilean border in San Pablo de Lípez Municipality, Potosí Department.
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