Salkantay, also spelled Salcantay or Sallqantay, is the highest peak of the Vilcabamba mountain range in the Peruvian Andes, rising in the Cusco region about 60 kilometers west-northwest of the city of Cusco. It ranks as the 38th-highest peak in the Andes and the 12th-highest in Peru, and because it rises from deeply incised terrain, it is the second-most topographically prominent peak in the country, after Huascaran. This entity documents Salkantay specifically as a geological formation, the Vilcabamba range's highest peak and Peru's second-most prominent mountain.
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Protected StatusUNESCO World Heritage Site 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: Salkantay
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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: Salkantay
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Source Wikidata: Salkantay
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected Areas: WDPA protected areas at the location of Salkantay
UNEP-WCMC and IUCN, World Database on Protected AreasWDPA feature: de Machupicchu
"desig_eng": "Historic Sanctuary"
WDPA feature: Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
"desig_eng": "World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)"
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