# Pukintika

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**Pukintika** ([Aymara](/source/Aymara_language) *puki* white soil,[1] *tika* [adobe](/source/Adobe),[2] Hispanicized spellings *Puguintica, Puquintica*, *Poquentica*, *Puquentica*) is a [volcano](/source/Volcano)[3] in the [Andes](/source/Andes), about 5,407 m (17,740 ft) high, situated in the [Cordillera Occidental](/source/Cordillera_Occidental_(Bolivia)) on the border of [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia) and [Chile](/source/Chile). It is located in the [Arica and Parinacota Region](/source/Arica_y_Parinacota_Region) of [Chile](/source/Chile) and the [Oruro Department](/source/Oruro_Department) of [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia) (in [Sabaya Province](/source/Sabaya_Province), Sabaya Municipality, Julo Canton).[4] Pukintika lies to the north of the [Salar de Surire](/source/Salar_de_Surire), east beside [Arintika](/source/Arintica) volcano which is younger than Pukintika.[5] Pukintika also features a [crater lake](/source/Volcanic_crater_lake) with a surface area of 2,500 square metres (27,000 sq ft).[6] Deposits of elemental [sulfur](/source/Sulfur) have been found on Pukintika.[7]

## See also

- [Asu Asuni](/source/Asu_Asuni)
- [Kimsa Chata](/source/Kimsa_Chata_(Sabaya))
- [List of mountains in the Andes](/source/List_of_mountains_in_the_Andes)
- [Qillwiri](/source/Qillwiri)
- [Uyarani](/source/Uyarani)
- [Wila Qullu](/source/Wila_Qullu_(Sabaya))

## References

1. Germán Mendoza Aruquipa, Toponimias aymara de la Marka Wiyacha. Qamasa, Revista de la carrera de historia, Universidad Indígena Tawantinsuyu Ajlla, No. 2, 2011 (in Spanish): " ... aymara: Puki uta y su significado es Casa de Poque o *tierra blanca*. (Note: *uta* – house, *puki uta* – house of poque or 'white soil')

1. [www.illa-a.org](http://www.illa-a.org/cd/diccionarios/LudovicoBertonioMuchosCambios.pdf): ***Tika*** – *Adobe*

1. Gabriela Vargas-Mattos, Mauro César Geraldes, Ramiro Matos Salinas, Reconstrucción geológica del volcán Chullcani (mioceno superior a plioceno superior): Consideraciónes generales sobre geoquímica y edad de las fases volcánicas, Andes Centrales de Bolivia, *[Revista Brasileira de Geociências](/source/Brazilian_Journal_of_Geology)*, 12/2006

1. [Sabaya Municipality: population data and map](http://www.ine.gob.bo/publicaciones/visorPdf.aspx?Codigo=040901&tipo=1) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140813210024/http://www.ine.gob.bo/publicaciones/visorPdf.aspx?Codigo=040901&tipo=1) 2014-08-13 at the Wayback Machine

1. ["Global Volcanism Program | Arintica"](https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=355814). *volcano.si.edu*. Retrieved 2017-05-26.

1. Cabrol, Nathalie A.; Grin, Edmond A.; Chong, Guillermo; Minkley, Edwin; Hock, Andrew N.; Yu, Youngseob; Bebout, Leslie; Fleming, Erich; Häder, Donat P.; Demergasso, Cecilia; Gibson, John; Escudero, Lorena; Dorador, Cristina; Lim, Darlene; Woosley, Clayton; Morris, Robert L.; Tambley, Cristian; Gaete, Victor; Galvez, Matthieu E.; Smith, Eric; Uskin-Peate, Ingrid; Salazar, Carlos; Dawidowicz, G.; Majerowicz, J. (June 2009). "The High-Lakes Project". *Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences*. **114** (G2): n/a. [Bibcode:2009JGRG..114.0D06C](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009JGRG..114.0D06C). [doi:10.1029/2008JG000818](https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JG000818)

1. Harmon, Russell S. & Rapela, Carlos W. (1991). [*Andean Magmatism and Its Tectonic Setting*](https://books.google.com/books?id=CTsCAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA307). Geological Society of America. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-8137-2265-8.

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