Cotahuasi Canyon near the city of
ArequipaArequipa is the capital of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 904,931 it is the second most populous city of the country. Arequipa lies in the Andes mountains, at an altitude of 2,380 meters above sea level; the snow-capped volcano El Misti overlooks the city...
in
PeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.Peruvian territory was home to the Norte Chico...
is considered deepest of the
AmericasThe Americas, or America, are lands in the Western hemisphere or New World, comprising the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. America may be ambiguous in English, as it is more commonly used to refer to the United States of America...
. Its maximum depth is 3535 meters in the sector of Ninancocha, 335 meters more than the
Colca CanyonColca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru. It is located about 100 miles northwest of Arequipa. It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the United States 4,160 m. However, the canyon's walls are not as vertical as those of the Grand Canyon...
, but less deep than several canyons in the
HimalayasThe Himalaya Range or Himalayas for short , meaning "abode of snow", is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
. The Cotahuasi Canyon is an impressive edge that the river has opened between two enormous mountainous bulks: the
CoropunaNevado Coropuna is the largest and highest volcano in Peru, attaining an impressive elevation of . It is located about northwest of Arequipa, the second largest city in Peru....
(6425 m.s.n.m.) and the Solimana (6093 m.s.n.m.). One extends from spurs of the snow-covered Solimana to the confluence with the Ocoña river.
It is formed by the Cotahuasi River, the one that is born in the lagoon of Huanzococha to more than 4750 m.s.n.m.
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Cotahuasi Canyon near the city of
ArequipaArequipa is the capital of the Arequipa Region in southern Peru. With a population of 904,931 it is the second most populous city of the country. Arequipa lies in the Andes mountains, at an altitude of 2,380 meters above sea level; the snow-capped volcano El Misti overlooks the city...
in
PeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.Peruvian territory was home to the Norte Chico...
is considered deepest of the
AmericasThe Americas, or America, are lands in the Western hemisphere or New World, comprising the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. America may be ambiguous in English, as it is more commonly used to refer to the United States of America...
. Its maximum depth is 3535 meters in the sector of Ninancocha, 335 meters more than the
Colca CanyonColca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru. It is located about 100 miles northwest of Arequipa. It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the United States 4,160 m. However, the canyon's walls are not as vertical as those of the Grand Canyon...
, but less deep than several canyons in the
HimalayasThe Himalaya Range or Himalayas for short , meaning "abode of snow", is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
. The Cotahuasi Canyon is an impressive edge that the river has opened between two enormous mountainous bulks: the
CoropunaNevado Coropuna is the largest and highest volcano in Peru, attaining an impressive elevation of . It is located about northwest of Arequipa, the second largest city in Peru....
(6425 m.s.n.m.) and the Solimana (6093 m.s.n.m.). One extends from spurs of the snow-covered Solimana to the confluence with the Ocoña river.
It is formed by the Cotahuasi River, the one that is born in the lagoon of Huanzococha to more than 4750 m.s.n.m. and later it receives the contribution of the Huayllapaña river in the neighborhoods of Pampamarca, by the north, and the Huarcaya next to Tomepampa, towards the west, crosses thus all the canyon later to be united with the
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and to form the
Ocoña RiverThe Ocoña River is a river located in the Arequipa region in southern Peru. It helped form Peru's deep canyon walls....
that ends at the
Pacific OceanThe Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Tepre Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. It extends from the Arctic in the north to Antarctica in the south, bounded by Asia and...
.
Cotahuasi is placed in the highest Andean place of Arequipa's department, in the Peruvian south. This province is characterized by its steep relief: cut here and as far back as rivers and gullies, with an altitude that differs between 1,000 and 6,093 meters, with 19 ecological floors. Its rural and isolated nature has ensured that its peoples' traditional customs have not been lost, as has happened in neighboring provinces.
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