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Ch'iyar Quta (Oruro)

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Ch'iyar Quta (Oruro)
Ch'iyar Quta (Oruro). Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Ch'iyar Quta (Aymara ch'iyara black, quta lake, "black lake", hispanicized spellings Chiar Kkota and erroneously also Chiar Kkola) is a small Bolivian lake located in the Sajama Province of the Oruro Department near the border to Chile. It is situated at a height of about 5,090 meters (16, 700 feet) inside the boundaries of the Sajama National Park. Ch'iyar Quta lies south-east of the peaks of Laram Q'awa, Milluni and Kunturiri, south-west of Jisk'a Kunturiri and north of Patilla Pata.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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