Pirqasqa

{{short description|Mountain in Peru}}

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| elevation_m = 5000

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| range = Andes, Wansu

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| location = Peru, Arequipa Region, La Unión Province

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Pirqasqa (Quechua pirqa wall, -sqa a suffix,{{Ref Laime}} "stonewalled", hispanicized spelling Perjasja) is a mountain in the Wansu mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about {{convert|5000|m|ft|0}} high. It is situated in the Arequipa Region, La Unión Province, in the northern part of the Puyca District. It lies south of Qullpa K'uchu, west of Kunturillu and southeast of Minasniyuq. The little lake east of Pirqasqa is named Pirqasqaqucha (Perjasjacocha).

The Kunturillu River (Condorillo) originates northwest of the mountain. It flows to the southeast as a right tributary of the Uqururu (Aymara and Quechua for Mimulus glabratus,Guillermo Cutipa Añamuro, Chacra qarpaña: Regando la chacra, IECTA, Iquique - Chile 2005, p. 26Christine Franquemont, Timothy Plowman, Edward Franquemont, Steven R. King, Christine Niezgoda, Wade Davis, Calvin R. Sperling (1990), The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern Peru. Fieldiana Botany, New Series No. 24, 1-126. hispanicized Ojoruro). The river is also known as Sumana or Cotahuasi.{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/jog/latin_america/txu-oclc-224300691-sd18-16.jpg|title=South America Maps|author= |date= |website= |publisher=Joint Operations Graphic|accessdate=July 23, 2014}} It flows to the Cotahuasi Canyon in the southwest.