Everything about Carhuasanta totally explained
The
Quebrada Carhuasanta is located in the
Apurímac Region of
Peru. It is known as the
headwaters of the
Amazon River. The brook is fed by the winter snows of
Nevado Mismi, (5,597 m), some 6,400 kilometres from the
Atlantic Ocean. Of all the possible river sources in the
Amazon Basin, it's the snow melt of the Carhuasanta that has been calculated by
cartographers to be the furthermost water source from the mouth of the Amazon.
The Carhuasanta joins with the Quebrada Apacheta, becoming the Rio Loqueta. The river has several more name changes before it becomes the
Apurímac River. The mining town of
Cailloma lies near the junction of four rivers that form the Apurímac.
National Geographic expedition
The
National Geographic Society sent a three-man expedition to the region in 1971, headed by
Loren McIntyre. The expedition travelled from Cailloma by four-wheel drive, but soon got bogged. Continuing on by back-packing up the river, they climbed up the
Apacheta Trail and traversed onto Nevado Mismi, taking in Nevado Quehuisha and Nevado Pumi Chiri. This is, as McIntyre describes it in his 1972 National Geographic article, "a semicircle rampart of the
continental divide. All that trickles from the inner rim joins to form the Apurimac."
{{cquote|On October 15, 1971, we reached an ice-edged ridge above Carhuasanta, longest of the five headwater brooks. The Indians call that 18,200 foot summit Choquecorao ... A thousand feet below the ridge we sighted a lake... We clambered down to quench our thirsts... Here at 17,220 feet was the farthest source of the mighty Amazon - more a pond than a lake, just a hundred feet across.
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