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Illimani

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Illimani (Aymara) is the highest mountain in the Cordillera Real (part of the Cordillera Oriental, a subrange of the Andes) of western Bolivia. [1]

31 relations: Altiplano, Andes, Avalanche, Aymara language, Aymara people, Bolivia, Cenozoic, Charles Wiener, Cordillera Oriental (Bolivia), Cordillera Quimsa Cruz, Cordillera Real (Bolivia), Eastern Air Lines Flight 980, El Alto, Florian Hill, German Alpine Club, Germany, Global Positioning System, Grade (climbing), Granodiorite, Italy, La Paz, La Paz Department (Bolivia), Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, Mountain, Nevado Sajama, Sedimentary rock, South America, Stratovolcano, Ultra-prominent peak, United Kingdom, Volcanoes of the World.

Altiplano

The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla"), Andean Plateau or Bolivian Plateau, in west-central South America, is the area where the Andes are the widest.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Avalanche

An avalanche (also called a snowslide) is a cohesive slab of snow lying upon a weaker layer of snow in the snowpack that fractures and slides down a steep slope when triggered.

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Aymara language

Aymara (Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes.

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Aymara people

The Aymara or Aimara (aymara) people are an indigenous nation in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America; about 1 million live in Bolivia, Peru and Chile.

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Bolivia

Bolivia (Mborivia; Buliwya; Wuliwya), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia (Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia), is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic Era meaning "new life", is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and, extending from 66 million years ago to the present day.

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Charles Wiener

Charles Wiener (1851–1913) was an Austrian-French scientist-explorer.

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Cordillera Oriental (Bolivia)

The Cordillera Oriental are parallel mountain ranges of the Bolivian Andes emplaced on the eastern and north eastern margin of the Andes.

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Cordillera Quimsa Cruz

The Cordillera Quimsa Cruz is a mountain range in the La Paz Department in Bolivia situated south east of Lake Titicaca and north of Lake Uru Uru, measuring about 35-40 km in length and 12 km at its widest point.

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Cordillera Real (Bolivia)

The Cordillera Real is a mountain range in the South American Altiplano of Bolivia.

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Eastern Air Lines Flight 980

Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was a scheduled international flight from Asunción, Paraguay, to Miami, Florida, United States.

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El Alto

El Alto (Spanish for "The Heights") is a municipality and the second-largest city in Bolivia, located adjacent to La Paz in Pedro Domingo Murillo Province on the Altiplano highlands.

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Florian Hill

Florian Hill (born April 9, 1984 in Germany) is a professional mountaineer and entrepreneur.

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German Alpine Club

The German Alpine Club (Deutscher Alpenverein, DAV) is the world's largest climbing association, and the eighth-largest sports union in Germany.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Global Positioning System

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force.

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Grade (climbing)

In rock climbing, mountaineering, and other climbing disciplines, climbers give a grade to a climbing route or boulder problem, intended to describe concisely the difficulty and danger of climbing it.

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Granodiorite

Granodiorite is a phaneritic-textured intrusive igneous rock similar to granite, but containing more plagioclase feldspar than orthoclase feldspar.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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La Paz

La Paz, officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace), also named Chuqi Yapu (Chuquiago) in Aymara, is the seat of government and the de facto national capital of the Plurinational State of Bolivia (the constitutional capital of Bolivia is Sucre).

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La Paz Department (Bolivia)

The La Paz Department of Bolivia comprises with a 2012 census population of 2,706,359 inhabitants.

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Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington

William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington (12 April 1856 – 19 April 1937), known between 1895 and 1931 as Sir Martin Conway, was an English art critic, politician, cartographer and mountaineer, who made expeditions in Europe as well as in South America and Asia.

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Mountain

A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.

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Nevado Sajama

Nevado Sajama is an extinct stratovolcano and the highest peak in Bolivia.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.

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South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Stratovolcano

A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and ash.

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or Ultra for short, is defined as a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Volcanoes of the World

Volcanoes of the World was a book that was published in three editions in 1981, 1994, and 2010 as a collaboration between volcanologists around the world, and the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP).

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Redirects here:

Lady of Illimani, Mount Illimani, Nevado Illimani, Nevado de Illimani, Nevado del Illimani.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illimani

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