Ch'iyar Qirini, Mountain summit in Cordillera Real, Bolivia.
Ch'iyar Qirini is a 5,363-metre mountain in the Cordillera Real of the Bolivian Andes, north-east of La Paz. It lies in Murillo Province, La Paz Municipality, near the border with El Alto Municipality, north-east of Chacaltaya and north of the two Qillwani Lakes. Its Aymara name means "the one with a black scale"; it is also spelled Charquerini or Chiar Kherini.
Ch'iyar Qirini lies in Murillo Province, La Paz Municipality, close to the border with El Alto Municipality, north-east of Chacaltaya and north of the two Qillwani Lakes. Its Aymara name, ch'iyara for black and qiri for scale, is recorded in the spellings Charquerini and Chiar Kherini. The mountain is listed in Bolivian statistics for La Paz, cited to the INE.
The name is Aymara: ch'iyara means black and qiri means scale, so Ch'iyar Qirini is "the one with a black scale". The mountain is also spelled Charquerini and Chiar Kherini. It lies in La Paz Municipality, Murillo Province, near the El Alto Municipality border.
Ch'iyar Qirini has no marked trail or facility; the sources record only its position north-east of Chacaltaya and north of the two Qillwani Lakes, in La Paz Municipality near the El Alto border. Approach from the Chacaltaya side, where the access road ends, and treat the final slopes as unmarked high-altitude terrain at 5,363 m.
Two lakes called Qillwani lie north of the peak and provide visual landmarks in this high mountain landscape. These water bodies demonstrate how the high Andes are shaped by glacial melt and alpine hydrology.
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