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La Cruz Destination Guide

Delve into La Cruz in Peru

La Cruz in the region of Ica is a city in Peru - some 239 mi or ( 385 km ) South-East of Lima , the country's capital .

Interactive map of La Cruz

Current time in La Cruz is now 11:48 PM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " America/Lima " with a UTC offset of -5 hours. Depending on your travel modalities, these larger destinations might be interesting for you: Venturosa, Taruga, Hacienda Tambo de Perro, Hacienda Soisonguito, and San Vicente. While being here, make sure to check out Venturosa . We encountered some video on the web . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Are you curious about the possible sightseeing spots and facts in La Cruz ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


Videos

Peru Sandboarders in Cerro Blanco

4:22 min by LivinginPeruTV
Views: 24975 Rating: 4.92

Top Peruvian Sandboarders go down Cerro Blanco, Peru's largest sand dune. They kicked off a 8000-kilometer motorcycle journey from Peru to Chile's Tierra del Fuego done by a German public television s ..

Casa Andina Classic - Nasca

1:43 min by casaandina
Views: 3349 Rating: 4.25

www.casa-andina.com Just 5 minutes from the Nasca (or Nazca) airfield and approximately 15 minutes by road from the Nasca Lines, Casa Andina Nasca Hotel invites you to visit the enigmatic Nasca Lines. ..


Restaurant Plaza Mayor de Nasca

1:30 min by plazamayornasca
Views: 3252 Rating: 5.00

www.plazamayor.com.pe Es el mejor restaurante de Nasca, ofrece los mejores potajes a sus clientes turistas ..

Nazca lines

7:31 min by eavg1616
Views: 1888 Rating: 5.00

Lineas de Nazca Parte I ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Maria Reiche Neuman Airport

The Maria Reiche Neuman Airport is a small airport near Nazca, Ica region, Peru. The airport receives small number of charter domestic flights. The main use of the airport is for touristic flights over the Nazca lines. The airport is named after Maria Reiche.

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Located at -14.85 -74.96 (Lat./Long.); Less than 13 km away
Tags: Airports in Peru, Ica Region

Cahuachi

Cahuachi, in Peru, was a major ceremonial center of the Nazca culture, based from 1 CE to about 500 CE in the coastal area of the Central Andes. It overlooked some of the Nazca lines. The Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Orefici has been excavating at the site for the past few decades. The site contains over 40 mounds topped with adobe structures. The huge architectural complex covers 0.6 sq. miles (1.5 km).

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Located at -14.82 -75.12 (Lat./Long.); Less than 14 km away
Tags: Adobe buildings and structures, Archaeological sites in Peru, Former populated places in Peru

Nazca

Nazca (sometimes spelled Nasca) is a city and a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru, and the name of the region's largest existing town in the Nazca Province. It is also the name applied to the Nazca culture that flourished in the area between 100 BC and AD 800. They were responsible for the Nazca Lines and the ceremonial city of Cahuachi; they also constructed an impressive system of underground aqueducts named Puquios, that still function today.

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Located at -14.83 -74.94 (Lat./Long.); Less than 17 km away
Tags: Archaeological sites in Peru, Geography of Peru, Populated places in the Ica Region

Nazca Plate

The Nazca Plate, named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the west coast of South America. The ongoing subduction, along the Peru-Chile Trench, of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate is largely responsible for the Andean orogeny. The Nazca Plate is bounded on the west by the Pacific Plate and to the south by the Antarctic Plate through the East Pacific Rise and the Chile Rise respectively.

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Located at -14.83 -74.94 (Lat./Long.); Less than 17 km away
Tags: Geology of Chile, Geology of the Pacific Ocean, Natural history of South America, Tectonic plates

Nazca Province

The Nazca Province (Spanish: Provincia de Nazca) is one of five provinces of the Ica Region of Peru. The capital of the province is the city of Nazca.

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Located at -14.83 -74.94 (Lat./Long.); Less than 17 km away
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