Pachacamac
Pachacámac is an archaeological site 40 kilometres southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the Lurín River. The site was first settled around A.D. 200 and was named after the "Earth Maker" creator god Pacha Kamaq.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 109,000 residents
- Description: archaeological site in Peru
- Also known as: “Pachacámac”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Lima.
South Lima
Southern Lima includes the districts of San Borja, Santiago de Surco, San Juan de Miraflores, Villa María del Triunfo, Villa el Salvador, Pachacamac, Lurín, Punta Hermosa, Punta Negra, San Bartolo, Santa María del Mar and Pucusana in Lima, Peru.
Pachacamac
- Categories: archaeological site and locality
- Location: Lurín District, Lima, Lima region, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-12.22991° or 12° 13′ 48″ southLongitude
-76.85939° or 76° 51′ 34″ westPopulation
109,000Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)United Nations Location Code
PE PCMOpen location code
57V5Q4CR+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 3780174736OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Pachacamac” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باتشاكاماك”
- Basque: “Pachacamac”
- Belarusian: “Пача Камак”
- Catalan: “Pachacamac”
- Chinese: “帕查卡馬克”
- Chinese: “帕查卡馬克神廟”
- Dutch: “Pachacamac”
- Estonian: “Pachacámac”
- Finnish: “Pachacamac”
- French: “Pachacamac”
- German: “Pachacámac”
- Greek: “Πατσακαμάκ”
- Hebrew: “פצ’אקמק”
- Indonesian: “Pachacamac”
- Indonesian: “Taman Nasional Pakhakamak”
- Italian: “Pachacamac”
- Japanese: “パチャカマ”
- Japanese: “パチャカマック”
- Japanese: “パチャカマック遺跡”
- Japanese: “パチャカマ神殿”
- Macedonian: “Пачакамак”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pachacamac”
- Persian: “پاچاکاماک”
- Polish: “Pachacámac”
- Portuguese: “Pachacamac”
- Quechua: “Pachakamaq llaqta”
- Russian: “Пачакамак”
- Serbian: “Pačakamak”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pachacamac”
- Slovenian: “Pachacamac”
- Slovenian: “Pachakamaq”
- Spanish: “Pachacamac”
- Spanish: “Pachacámac”
- Spanish: “Ruinas de Pachacamac”
- Swedish: “Pachacamac”
- Swedish: “Pachacámac”
- Ukrainian: “Пачакамак”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Plaza de Armas de Pachacámac and Municipalidad Distrital de Pachacámac.
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