Pacanga
Pacanga is a town in Northern Peru, capital of the district Pacanga in Chepén Province of the region La Libertad. This town is located some 143 km north Trujillo city and is primarily an agricultural center in the Jequetepeque Valley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 8,750 residents
- Description: human settlement in Peru
- Also known as: “Pacahoa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Jose de Moro and Chepén.
San Jose de Moro
Village
San Jose de Moro is a Moche archaeological site in the Pacanga District, Chepén Province, La Libertad Region, of Northwestern Peru. The site served as a ceremonial funerary complex between the years 400 and 1000 AD. San Jose de Moro is situated 5 km east of Pacanga.
Chepén
Town
Photo: Martintops, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chepén is a city of La Libertad Region and capital of the Chepén Province, in Peru. The city is a rice production center with the valleys of Chepén and Jequetepeque, and has an active trading with neighboring Guadalupe, Pacasmayo and San Pedro de Lloc and other towns. Chepén is situated 9 km southeast of Pacanga.
Pacanga
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Pacanga District, Chepén Province, La Libertad, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-7.17135° or 7° 10′ 17″ southLongitude
-79.48581° or 79° 29′ 9″ westPopulation
8,750Elevation
82 metres (269 feet)Open location code
6742RGH7+FMOpenStreetMap ID
node 3311756599OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3694183Wikidata ID
Q7121871
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Pacanga” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pacanga (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Pacanga”
- Dutch: “Pacanga”
- Irish: “Pacanga”
- Spanish: “Pacanga”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pacanga”. Photo: S23678, CC BY 3.0.