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Las Canas Destination Guide

Explore Las Canas in Peru

Las Canas in the region of Ica is a town in Peru - some 231 mi or ( 372 km ) South-East of Lima , the country's capital city .

Interactive map of Las Canas

Current time in Las Canas is now 06:57 PM (Sunday) . The local timezone is named " America/Lima " with a UTC offset of -5 hours. Depending on the availability of means of transportation, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Hacienda Tunga, Hacienda Tambo de Perro, Hacienda San Pablo, Hacienda San Jose, and Pueblo Viejo. Since you are here already, make sure to check out Hacienda Tunga . We saw some video on the web . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Where to go and what to see in Las Canas ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


Videos

ナスカ地上絵-3 CineMagic Nasca 4.wmv

2:59 min by MrUshikujiji
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Nasca Lines

8:07 min by mgeubel
Views: 84 Rating: 5.00

My flight over the Nasca Lines in May 2011 ..


Pampa de Nazca

0:20 min by Santiago Stucchi Portocarrero
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"El colibrí" ..

(168)TheFlight for the Nazca Lines,Nazca, Peru(HD) 5

0:41 min by MIZOtheworldheritage
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That is the Lines of alien ?? :-o I feel that there are many kinds of secrets around Nazca Lines :-) ..


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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).

More reading: Wikipedia Article
Located at -14.82 -75.12 (Lat./Long.); Less than 2 km away
Tags: Adobe buildings and structures, Archaeological sites in Peru, Former populated places in Peru

Nazca Lines

The Nazca Lines /ˈnæzkə/ are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The high, arid plateau stretches more than 80 kilometres between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana about 400 km south of Lima. Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD.

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Located at -14.72 -75.13 (Lat./Long.); Less than 12 km away
Tags: Archaeoastronomy, Archaeological sites in Peru, Geoglyphs, Land art, Prehistoric art, Prehistoric inscriptions, World Heritage Sites 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 15 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 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