Phaq'u Q'awa (Sajama)

Phaq'u Q'awa is a mountain in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of Bolivia, about 5380 m high. It is situated in the Oruro Department, Sajama Province, in the west of the Curahuara de Carangas Municipality, northwest of the extinct Sajama volcano. It lies south of Qullqi Warani.

The river Junt'uma K'uchu (Aymara warm, hot,  water,  corner, "warm water corner", Junthuma Khuchu) originates north of Phaq'u Q'awa. It flows to the southeast as a right affluent of the Sajama River.

Name
Phaq'u Q'awa derives from Aymara language terms, , or meaning the color light brown,  reddish, fair-haired, or dark chestnut, and  meaning little river, ditch, crevice, fissure, or gap in the earth,  the name thus meaning "brown brook" or "brown ravine". The Hispanicized spelling is Pacocahua or Pajojañua.