Jach'a Jawira (La Paz-Oruro)

This article is about the river in the La Paz Department and in the Oruro Department, Bolivia. For other uses, see Jach'a Jawira.
Jach'a Jawira
EtymologyAymara
Location
CountryBolivia
RegionLa Paz Department, Oruro Department
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationLoayza Province
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • leftQallun Uma, Wich'inka Jawira,
Wari Umaña, Ch'iyar Jawira
 • rightUrnuni

Jach'a Jawira (Aymara jach'a big, great, jawira river,[1] "great river", hispanicized names río Jachcha Jahuira, río Jacha Jahuira Caxata, río Jachcha Jahuira de Caxata) which later is named Q'ara Qullu and Waña Jawira is a Bolivian river in the La Paz Department and in the Oruro Department. Its waters flow towards Uru Uru Lake.

The river originates near the mountain Wisk'achani in the La Paz Department, Loayza Province, Yaco Municipality. Its direction is to the south while it flows along the border of the Ichoca Municipality of the Inquisivi Province and the Yaco Municipality. Some of its affluents are Ch'iyar Jawira ("black river", Chiar Jahuira), Wari Umaña (Wari Umana) and Wich'inka Jawira ("tail river", Huichinca Jahuira) from the left and Urnuni (Hornum, Hornuni) from the right. After Qallun Uma (Callun Uma), a left tributary, reaches Jach'a Jawira in the Caracollo Municipality of the Cercado Province the river is named Q'ara Qullu ("bare mountain", Caracollo). Within the municipality it later receives the name Waña Jawira ("dry river", Huana Jahuira).[2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Radio San Gabriel, "Instituto Radiofonico de Promoción Aymara" (IRPA) 1993, Republicado por Instituto de las Lenguas y Literaturas Andinas-Amazónicas (ILLLA-A) 2011, Transcripción del Vocabulario de la Lengua Aymara, P. Ludovico Bertonio 1612 (Spanish-Aymara-Aymara-Spanish dictionary)
  2. ^ Bolivian IGM map 1:50,000 Puchuni 6142-III
  3. ^ Bolivian IGM map 1:100,000 Colquiri 3436-I
  4. ^ "Yaco". INE, Bolivia. Retrieved November 24, 2014.
  5. ^ "Caracollo". INE, Bolivia. Archived from the original on November 27, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2014.