In 1995 the Bolivian government used the term Jatun Mundo Quri Warani to denominate this mountain and not Nuevo Mundo. Formerly the maps of the Bolivian Instituto Geográfico Militar (IGM) identified another peak as Nuevo Mundo at southwest of the Lípez volcano () which reaches a height of approximately . This was based on an earlier identification of Nuevo Mundo as one of the twin peaks of Cerro Lipez.