Ausangate (Quechua: Awsanqati) is a mountain of the
Cordillera Vilcanota range in the Andes of Peru. With an altitude of
6,384 metres it is situated around 100 kilometres southeast of Cusco.
The mountain has significance in Incan mythology. Every year on the
north side of Ausangate the feast of Qoyllur Rit'i (Quechua: "snow star")
is celebrated before the feast of the Corpus Christi, during which
thousands of Quechua pilgrims attend.
The mountain was ascended by Heinrich Harrer in 1953.Relax and enjoy
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The region in inhabited by llama and alpaca herding communities, and
constitutes one of the few remaining pastoralist societies in the world,
high mountain trails are used by this herders, to trade with the lower
elevation agricultural communities, modernly one of this trails "the
road of the Apu Ausangate" is one of the most renowned treks in Peru.
The area has 4 major geological features, the Andean uplift formed by
Granits, the hanging glaciers and glaciar erotional valleys, the Permian
formation with its singular colors, reds,ocre, turcoise and the
Creatceous,lime stone forests. |
