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Meaning of titicaca



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

titicaca
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It is the name of a large South American and mountain lake, located between Peru and Bolivia. The word as such is of Quechua origin Aymará and means wild cat with gray hair or gray Andean cat. It is the highest navigable lake in the world.

  



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Rolando Escudero Vidal

Titicaca-obviously this name is derived from the quechua phrase do ICT - ti ghagh-gha which means do Gorge of the wart does, by several razon:primero.-in quechua is called the wart does ICT - ti do, and, of course, do ghagh-gha does means broken do second-because the natives are confident that the cattails are the preferred habitat of the vector of the wart.????????Third.-in the Titicaca Lake there are many cattails.Four.-the vector of the Peruvian wart or lutzomyla is better known as tityra, name that can be derived from the quechua phrase do ICT-ti-rur-raj which means do producer of the wart does.???? Therefore, Titicaca = Gorge of the wart.

  










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