Túcume
Túcume is a pre-Hispanic site in Peru, south of the La Leche River on a plain around La Raya Mountain. It covers an area of over 540 acres and encompassing 26 major pyramids and mounds.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: cultural heritage site in Peru
- Also known as: “Piramides de Túcume”, “Tucume”, “Zona Arqueologica Tucume”, and “Zona Arqueológica Túcume”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museo de Sitio Túcume.
Museo de Sitio Túcume
Museum
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Museo de Sitio Túcume is a museum, which is situated 720 metres northwest of Túcume.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Túcume and Illimo.
Illimo
Village
Photo: Jorge cherres, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Illimo is a locality in Illimo District. Illimo is situated 5 km north of Túcume.
Túcume
- Categories: archaeological site, archaeological find, human settlement, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Túcume District, Lambayeque Province, Lambayeque, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-6.51901° or 6° 31′ 9″ southLongitude
-79.84381° or 79° 50′ 38″ westElevation
65 metres (213 feet)Open location code
6752F5J4+9FOpenStreetMap ID
way 31245401OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
3810881Wikidata ID
Q1677131
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Túcume” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Túcume”
- Cebuano: “Túcume”
- Danish: “Túcume”
- Dutch: “Piramiden van Túcume”
- Dutch: “Tucume”
- Dutch: “Túcume”
- Esperanto: “Tukume”
- French: “Túcume”
- Georgian: “ტუკუმე”
- German: “Pyramiden von Túcume”
- Hebrew: “טוקומה”
- Hungarian: “Túcume”
- Irish: “Túcume”
- Italian: “Túcume”
- Japanese: “ツクーメ”
- Japanese: “トゥクメ”
- Macedonian: “Тукуме”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tucume”
- Norwegian: “Túcume”
- Portuguese: “Tucume”
- Quechua: “Tukumi chuntukuna”
- Russian: “Тукуме”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Túcume”
- Spanish: “Complejo arqueológico de Túcume”
- Spanish: “Pirámides de Túcume”
- Spanish: “Tucume”
- Spanish: “Túcume”
- Spanish: “Tuqueme”
- Ukrainian: “Тукуме”
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