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La Yapana Destination Guide

Discover La Yapana in Peru

La Yapana in the region of Ica is a town located in Peru - some 234 mi or ( 376 km ) South-East of Lima , the country's capital .

Interactive map of La Yapana

Local time in La Yapana is now 07:23 AM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " America/Lima " with a UTC offset of -5 hours. Depending on your flexibility, these larger cities might be interesting for you: Hacienda Tunga, Taruga, Hacienda Tambo de Perro, Paroma, and Nazca. When in this area, you might want to check out Hacienda Tunga . We found some clip posted online . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Are you looking for some initial hints on what might be interesting in La Yapana ? 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

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 6 km away
Tags: Adobe buildings and structures, Archaeological sites in Peru, Former populated places in Peru

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 12 km away
Tags: Airports in Peru, Ica Region

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 13 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 13 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 13 km away
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