Which Peruvian ice cap is also known as the Quenamari Ice Cap?

The Peruvian ice cap also known as the Quenamari Ice Cap is the Quelccaya Ice Cap.

Quelccaya lies in the Cordillera Oriental of the southern Peruvian Andes, at elevations generally above 5,200 meters. It is an ice cap rather than a single valley glacier, meaning ice flows outward in several directions from a broad elevated mass. The cap is surrounded by outlet glaciers, including Qori Kalis, its largest outlet.

Quelccaya became especially important to climate science because researchers extracted ice cores there. Two cores recovered in 1983 were the first obtained outside the polar regions, preserving evidence of past temperature, precipitation, drought, wet periods, and El Niño events. Meltwater from the ice cap ultimately contributes to the Vilcanota and Inambari river systems.

The ice cap has retreated substantially. It covered about 42.8 square kilometers in 2009, and exposed ground has developed lakes, wetlands, and vegetation as the ice withdraws. Qori Kalis Glacier is therefore not an alternative name for the ice cap; it is one of Quelccaya’s outlet glaciers. Coropuna is a separate Peruvian ice-covered volcanic massif.