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Huascarán
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Huascarán
Huascarán
or
Nevado Huascarán
is a
mountain
in the
Peruvian
province of
Yungay
(Ancash Departament), situated in the
Cordillera Blanca
range of the western
Andes
. The highest southern summit of Huascarán (Huascarán Sur) is the highest point in
Peru
, northern part of Andes (north of
Lake Titicaca
) and in all of the
Earth
's
Tropics
. Huascarán is the fourth highest mountain in the
Western Hemisphere
after
Aconcagua
,
Ojos del Salado
, and
Monte Pissis
. The mountain was named after
Huáscar
, a 16th-century
Inca
emperor who was the
Sapa Inca
of the
Inca empire
.
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