Huayna Potosi rises in western Bolivia near the city of El Alto, about 25 kilometers north of the capital La Paz, reaching an elevation of about 6,088 meters as part of the Cordillera Real range of the Andes, which runs between the Altiplano plains and the lowland Yungas forests leading to the Amazon basin. It is a non-volcanic fold mountain raised by Andean tectonic compression. This entity documents Huayna Potosi specifically as a geological formation, a Cordillera Real fold peak overlooking La Paz and the Altiplano.
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to formative process Orogeny via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Huayna Potosi
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
Source Wikidata: Huayna Potosi
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: WDPA protected areas at the location of Huayna Potosi
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA feature: Tuni CondoririQuote, WDPA feature: Tuni Condoriri
"desig_eng": "National Park"
Wikidata: Huayna Potosi
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