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Jirishanca

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Jirishanca
Jirishanca. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Jirishanca is a 6,094-metre-high (19,993 ft) mountain in the Huayhuash mountain range in west central Peru, part of the Andes. Other sources cite a height of 6,125 metres (20,095 ft). It is the 10th highest peak in Peru and the third in the Huayhuash range (after Yerupajá and Siula Grande). Jirishanca translates as "hummingbird bill peak".

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

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