Phaq'u Q'awa (Sajama)


Phaq'u Q'awa is a mountain in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of Bolivia, about high. It is situated in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, in the west of the Curahuara de Carangas Municipality, northwest of the extinct Sajama volcano. It lies south of Qullqi Warani.
The river Junt'uma K'uchu originates north of Phaq'u Q'awa. It flows to the southeast as a right affluent of the Sajama River.

Name

Phaq'u Q'awa derives from Aymara language terms phaq'u, paqu,or p'aqu meaning the color light brown, reddish, fair-haired, or dark chestnut, and q'awa meaning little river, ditch, crevice, fissure, or gap in the earth, the name thus meaning "brown brook" or "brown ravine". The Hispanicized spelling is Pacocahua or Pajojañua.