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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A volcano, 6,730 m (22,080 ft) high, in the Andes of northern Chile near the Argentine border.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun proper name A mountain in Argentina and Chile, 22,057 feet high.
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- noun a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,057 feet high)
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The Children of Llullaillaco were found at the highest elevation ever discovered for sacrificial victims of the former Inca empire, which ran along the Andes from present-day northern Argentina to Peru.
Museum Goers Gasp at the Body of Sacrificed Maiden | Impact Lab 2007
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Scientists believe the so-called Children of Llullaillaco were sacrificed more than 500 years ago in a ceremony marking the annual corn harvest.
Museum Goers Gasp at the Body of Sacrificed Maiden | Impact Lab 2007
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These included the 15-year old "Llullaillaco Maiden" and the 7-year old "Llullaillaco Boy" whose frozen remains were found in 1999 at a shrine 25m from the summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a 6,739m volcano on the border of Argentina and Chile.
Incas ‘Fattened’ Kids Before Sacrificing Them | Impact Lab 2007
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Previous research has shown that Llullaillaco Boy appears to have met a particularly horrific end.
Incas ‘Fattened’ Kids Before Sacrificing Them | Impact Lab 2007
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Scientists believe the so-called Children of Llullaillaco were sacrificed more than 500 years ago in a ceremony marking the annual corn harvest.
Boing Boing 2007
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Hundreds of people packed a museum in Salta, Argentina, to see "la Doncella" — Spanish for "the Maiden" — a 15-year-old girl whose remains were found in 1999 in an icy pit on Llullaillaco volcano, along with a 6-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy.
Museum Goers Gasp at the Body of Sacrificed Maiden | Impact Lab 2007
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To reach the top of Llullaillaco the team had to brave driving snow, oxygen deprivation and winds of 70 miles an hour.
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After some repetitiveness -- one climb begins to merge with the next -- the tale climaxes with his account of scaling the Argentinean peak Llullaillaco.
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The perfectly preserved bodies of two Inka girls and a boy have been found atop the 22,000-foot Andean volcano Llullaillaco in northwestern Argentina.
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Archaeologist Constanza Ceruti on the summit of Llullaillaco Volcano, where the expedition she co-lead unearthed three of the best-preserved mummies ever discovered.
NPR Topics: News 2011
bilby commented on the word Llullaillaco
Anyone know of a word with more ls?
February 9, 2016
alexz commented on the word Llullaillaco
the long version of Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll
February 9, 2016
bilby commented on the word Llullaillaco
Nice work alexz but it looks like a 6-6 tie to me!
February 9, 2016
bilby commented on the word Llullaillaco
Heavy hitters Wales and Chile slugging it out.
February 9, 2016
alexz commented on the word Llullaillaco
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
11 l's
February 9, 2016
alexz commented on the word Llullaillaco
February 9, 2016