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Definition of Coropuna
1. Noun. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coropuna
Literary usage of Coropuna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Andes of Southern Peru: Geographical Reconnaissance Along the Seventy by Isaiah Bowman (1916)
"The observation on the Coropuna Quadrangle just south of ... indicated also by
the fact that the location on the top of Mount Coropuna checks closely with ..."
2. First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by Garcilaso de la Vega, Clements Robert Markham (1869)
"Coropuna is a perfect cone, and from its sides the sea may be seen, glittering
under a setting sun, at a distance of sixty-five miles. t Anni, "I affirm" or ..."
3. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"... Ampato, and (farther west) the still grander Coropuna, whose height, not yet
absolutely determined, may exceed twenty-two thousand feet and make it the ..."
4. Panama to Patagonia: The Isthmian Canal and the West Coast Countries to by Charles Melville Pepper (1906)
"Provide artesian wells, bring the snow rivulets down from Coropuna by the methods of
... In this manner the snow-peaks of Coropuna and the crystal apex of ..."
5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"Still further to the left the eye catches in the distance a white cone of snow,
which has been incorrectly designated Coropuna, but ¡3 in reality called ..."
6. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1919)
"Figure 118 shows a fruit from the same plant; figure 119 is from a photograph
taken by H. L- Tucker at Coropuna, Peru, in 1911. 75. ..."
7. The Andes of Southern Peru: Geographical Reconnaissance Along the Seventy by Isaiah Bowman (1916)
"The observation on the Coropuna Quadrangle just south of ... indicated also by
the fact that the location on the top of Mount Coropuna checks closely with ..."
8. First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by Garcilaso de la Vega, Clements Robert Markham (1869)
"Coropuna is a perfect cone, and from its sides the sea may be seen, glittering
under a setting sun, at a distance of sixty-five miles. t Anni, "I affirm" or ..."
9. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"... Ampato, and (farther west) the still grander Coropuna, whose height, not yet
absolutely determined, may exceed twenty-two thousand feet and make it the ..."
10. Panama to Patagonia: The Isthmian Canal and the West Coast Countries to by Charles Melville Pepper (1906)
"Provide artesian wells, bring the snow rivulets down from Coropuna by the methods of
... In this manner the snow-peaks of Coropuna and the crystal apex of ..."
11. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"Still further to the left the eye catches in the distance a white cone of snow,
which has been incorrectly designated Coropuna, but ¡3 in reality called ..."
12. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1919)
"Figure 118 shows a fruit from the same plant; figure 119 is from a photograph
taken by H. L- Tucker at Coropuna, Peru, in 1911. 75. ..."