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Озеро Чуруп. Фотограф Политова Анна. Россия (Москва).

Озеро Чуруп (Laguna Churup) находится в Перу, в Кордильере Бланка, в национальном парке Уаскаран. Оно расположено на высоте 4450 метров над уровнем моря, у подножия одноименной горы.

Lake Churup. Photographer Anna Politova. Russia (Moscow).

Lake Churup (Laguna Churup) is located in Peru, in the Cordillera Blanca, in the Huascaran National Park. It is located at an altitude of 4450 meters above sea level, at the foot of the mountain of the same name.

Huascaran, The Highest Mountain In Peru

The Peruvian Andes

The legend of Huascarán and Huandoy, Perú

In the kingdom of the Andes lived the supreme God, Inti (the Sun) and his beautiful daughter, Huandoy. 

His father wanted to marry her with some other God but in the heart of the valley, there lived a mortal prince, Huascarán. Huandoy and Huascarán fell deeply in love and used to hide from the eyes of her father. When his father found out he begged her to stop but she wouldn’t listen. 

Full of rage, Inti sentenced them both to a lasting punishment. He transformed his daughter into a mountain and Huascarán into a even higher one, for them to see each other, but never touch. Inti covered them with perpetual snow to calm their passions. He set a deep valley between them for them to be separated forever. 

With the tears of the two lovers, they kept melting the snow drop by drop, and the lagoon of Llanganuco was born.