coropuna meaning

• No significant valley glaciers are present on Coropuna.
• In Inca mythology, Coropuna was identified as an Apu, a sacred mountain.
• Erosion has incised deep gorges around Coropuna.
• The total volume of Coropuna is about.
• Coropuna rises above the surrounding terrain.
• Over thirty archaeological sites, many of them predating the Incas, have been found around Coropuna.
• Coropuna is located south of the Pucuncho basin in the Peruvian Andes and away from the Pacific coast.
• A major ice core was drilled in 2003 on Coropuna, covering more than 16, 000 years.
• This collision generates fault zones, best visible south and southwest of Coropuna where shifts of and more have occurred.
• Coropuna has been active for at least five million years, with the bulk of the current cone having formed during the PliocenePleistocene.