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Kuntur Ikiña (Sajama)

mountain in Bolivia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ8537086 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kuntur Ikiña (Aymara kunturi condor, ikiña to sleep, bed or blanket, "bed of the condor" or "resting place of the condor", Hispanicized spelling Condor Iquiña) is a 5,044-metre-high (16,549 ft) mountain in the Andes located in the Cordillera Occidental of Bolivia. It is situated in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Turco Municipality, north-east of Umurata and south of the Bolivian Route 4 that leads to Tambo Quemado on the border with Chile.

Editorial summary

“Kuntur Ikiña (Sajama)” enters the record as mountain in Bolivia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kuntur, Ikiña and Sajama can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 72-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kuntur, Ikiña and Sajama.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Kuntur Ikiña (Sajama)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kuntur, Ikiña and Sajama provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8537086. Authority coordinates are -18.333, -69.000. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Kuntur Ikiña (Sajama)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Kuntur Ikiña (Sajama) primary sources, Kuntur Ikiña (Sajama) archive and Kuntur research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Kuntur Ikiña (Sajama)”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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This entry incorporates text from “Kuntur Ikiña (Sajama)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.