Definition of Coropuna

1. Noun. A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high).

Group relationships: Peru, Republic Of Peru, Andes
Generic synonyms: Mountain Peak

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coropuna

Cornus mas
Cornus obliqua
Cornus sanguinea
Cornus stolonifera
Cornwall
Cornwallis
Corokia
Coromandel gooseberry
Corona Australis
Corona Austrina
Corona Borealis
Corona Corona
Coronado
Coronaviridae
Coronilla varia
Coropuna (current term)
Corot
Corpus Christi
Correggio
Corregidor
Correra's line
Correus
Corrie
Corriedale
Corrigan's pulse
Corrigan's sign
Corrine
Corrodentia
Corrèze

Literary usage of Coropuna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Andes of Southern Peru: Geographical Reconnaissance Along the Seventy by Isaiah Bowman (1916)
"The observation on the Coropuna Quadrangle just south of ... indicated also by the fact that the location on the top of Mount Coropuna checks closely with ..."

2. First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by Garcilaso de la Vega, Clements Robert Markham (1869)
"Coropuna is a perfect cone, and from its sides the sea may be seen, glittering under a setting sun, at a distance of sixty-five miles. t Anni, "I affirm" or ..."

3. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"... Ampato, and (farther west) the still grander Coropuna, whose height, not yet absolutely determined, may exceed twenty-two thousand feet and make it the ..."

4. Panama to Patagonia: The Isthmian Canal and the West Coast Countries to by Charles Melville Pepper (1906)
"Provide artesian wells, bring the snow rivulets down from Coropuna by the methods of ... In this manner the snow-peaks of Coropuna and the crystal apex of ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"Still further to the left the eye catches in the distance a white cone of snow, which has been incorrectly designated Coropuna, but ¡3 in reality called ..."

6. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1919)
"Figure 118 shows a fruit from the same plant; figure 119 is from a photograph taken by H. L- Tucker at Coropuna, Peru, in 1911. 75. ..."

7. The Andes of Southern Peru: Geographical Reconnaissance Along the Seventy by Isaiah Bowman (1916)
"The observation on the Coropuna Quadrangle just south of ... indicated also by the fact that the location on the top of Mount Coropuna checks closely with ..."

8. First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas by Garcilaso de la Vega, Clements Robert Markham (1869)
"Coropuna is a perfect cone, and from its sides the sea may be seen, glittering under a setting sun, at a distance of sixty-five miles. t Anni, "I affirm" or ..."

9. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"... Ampato, and (farther west) the still grander Coropuna, whose height, not yet absolutely determined, may exceed twenty-two thousand feet and make it the ..."

10. Panama to Patagonia: The Isthmian Canal and the West Coast Countries to by Charles Melville Pepper (1906)
"Provide artesian wells, bring the snow rivulets down from Coropuna by the methods of ... In this manner the snow-peaks of Coropuna and the crystal apex of ..."

11. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1891)
"Still further to the left the eye catches in the distance a white cone of snow, which has been incorrectly designated Coropuna, but ¡3 in reality called ..."

12. The Cactaceae: Descriptions and Illustrations of Plants of the Cactus Family by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose (1919)
"Figure 118 shows a fruit from the same plant; figure 119 is from a photograph taken by H. L- Tucker at Coropuna, Peru, in 1911. 75. ..."

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