Phaq'u Q'awa is a mountain in the Cordillera Occidental in the Andes of Bolivia, about 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.escale.minedu.gob.pe - UGEL map of the Candarave Province (Tacna Region)00033-2009-AI - Tribunal Constitucional del Perú, October 2009Peru 1:100,000, Hospicio 2837, Map prepared and published by the Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center, Bethesda, MD
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