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Definition of Ancohuma
1. Noun. A mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,960 feet high).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ancohuma
Literary usage of Ancohuma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bolivian Andes: A Record of Climbing & Exploration in the Cordillera by William Martin Conway (1901)
"... CHAPTER XXI CLIMBING Ancohuma ON a brilliantly fine morning we set forward.
" In nombre de Dios!" the arriero cried, "for we Peruvians pray to God at ..."
2. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"... 1 Sir M. Conway gives the height of the higher peak Ancohuma (Hanko Uma) at
21490, as the mean of a number of observations ; others have put it higher. ..."
3. Views of Nature: Or, Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation by Alexander von Humboldt, Elise C. Otté, Henry George Bohn (1850)
"... been regarded as the highest or culminating points of the Cordilleras of the
new continent:— Tbe Nevada de Sorata, also called Ancohuma or ..."
4. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"... summits of the system, but recent explorations have shown that neither of the
peaks of Sorata (Ancohuma or Illampu) nor Illimani exceeds 22000 feet. ..."
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