Muruqucha

{{short description|Mountain in Peru}}

{{About|the mountain in the Lima Region, Peru|other uses|Muruqucha (disambiguation){{!}}Muruqucha (disambiguation)}}

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Muruqucha (Quechua muru blunt; mutilated; stained; pip, grain; smallpox, qucha lake, Hispanicized spelling Morococha) is a {{convert|5193|m|ft|adj=mid|-high}} mountain near a little lake of that name in the Andes of Peru. It is located in the Lima Region, Huaura Province, Santa Leonor District. It lies southeast of Chururuyuq and east of Chururu.

The lake named Muruqucha is southeast of the mountain in the Pasco Region, Pasco Province, Huayllay District, at {{Coord|10|59|23|S|76|34|40|W}}.

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Peru 1:100,000, Oyón 1549, Map prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center, Bethesda, MD

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escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Huaura Province (Lima Region)

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Category:Five-thousanders of the Andes

Category:Mountains of the Department of Lima

Category:Lakes of Peru

Category:Lakes of the Department of Pasco

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