San Juan de Marcona
San Juan de Marcona is the capital of the Marcona District of Nazca Province, Ica Region, Peru. It is a mining, commercial, port, and fishing town, with a population of approximately 20,000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 15,900 residents
- Description: human settlement in Peru
- Also known as: “San Juan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Juan Airport.
San Juan Airport
Aerodrome
San Juan de Marcona Airport is an airport serving the city of San Juan de Marcona, the capital of the Ica Region of Peru, and the Marcona Naval Base. The runway is in the desert 2.7 kilometres northeast of the town, and has an additional 800 metres of overrun on its southeastern end. San Juan Airport is situated 3½ km east of San Juan de Marcona.
San Juan de Marcona
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Marcona District, Nasca Province, Ica, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-15.36197° or 15° 21′ 43″ southLongitude
-75.16714° or 75° 10′ 2″ westPopulation
15,900Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)IATA airport code
SJAOpen location code
57P6JRQM+64OpenStreetMap ID
node 705117990OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“San Juan de Marcona” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “San Juan de Marcona”
- Dutch: “San Juan de Marcona”
- French: “San Juan de Marcona”
- German: “Marcona”
- Japanese: “サン・ファン・デ・マルコナ”
- Lithuanian: “Markona”
- Lithuanian: “San Chuan de Markona”
- Polish: “San Juan de Marcona”
- Quechua: “Marcona”
- Quechua: “Markuna”
- Quechua: “Marquna”
- Quechua: “San Juan de Marcona”
- Russian: “Маркона”
- Spanish: “Marcona”
- Spanish: “Puerto San Juan”
- Spanish: “San Juan de Marcona”
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