Santa Cruz Creek

This article is about the river in the Ancash Region, Peru. For other uses, see Yuraqmayu (Lima).
Santa Cruz
The Waripampa valley (on the left) and Santa Cruz Creek (on the right) along Sintiru (center right, snowless) as seen from the Alpamayo-Quitaraju plateau
Map
Location
CountryPeru
RegionAncash
Physical characteristics
MouthSanta River

Santa Cruz,[1][2][3] (called Yuraqmayu[4] or Yuracma[5][2] near its end) is a creek in Peru located in Santa Cruz District, Huaylas Province, Ancash. It is a right tributary of the Santa River.[1]

It originates in the Cordillera Blanca southwest of Taulliraju, near a lake named Tawlliqucha. It flows from northeast to southwest through lakes Jatuncocha and Ichiccocha and passing by the village of Llamacorral, flanked by the mountains Pucajirca, Quitaraju and Santa Cruz in the north and by Sintiru, Artesonraju and Caraz in the south. Southwest of Santa Cruz, near the village of Cashapampa,[1] it turns to the northwest and then joins the Santa River near the villages of Colcas and Pacamayo,[1][2][5] 140 km before the Santa River reaches the Pacific Ocean.[6]

The toponymy Yuraqmayu is of Quechua origin, possibly meaning: yuraq white, mayu river,[7] "white river".

  1. ^ a b c d Alpenvereinskarte 0/3a. Cordillera Blanca Nord (Peru). 1:100 000. Oesterreichischer Alpenverein. 2005. ISBN 3-928777-57-2.
  2. ^ a b c Peru 1:100 000, Corongo (18-h). IGN (Instituto Geográfico Nacional - Perú).
  3. ^ Ricker, John (1977). Yuraq Janka: A Guide to the Peruvian Andes. The Mountaineers Books. p. 59. ISBN 9781933056708.
  4. ^ "Quebrada Santa Cruz". Inventario Turistico del Peru (in Spanish). MINCETUR. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  5. ^ a b "UGEL Huaylas - Mapa" (PDF). ESCALE - Estadística de la Calidad Educativa - Mapas (in Spanish). MINEDU. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  6. ^ Ministerio de Energía y Minas, Cuenca del Río Santa (in Spanish)
  7. ^ Teofilo Laime Acopa, Diccionario Bilingüe, Iskay simipi yuyay k'ancha, Quechua – Castellano, Castellano – Quechua