North Chincha Island
The Chincha Islands are a group of three small islands 21 kilometres off the southwest coast of Peru, to which they belong, near the town of Pisco. Since pre-Incan times they were of interest for their extensive guano deposits, but the supplies were mostly exhausted by 1874.- Island
- …lies at an elevation of around 30 metres (100 feet)
- Also known as“Chincha North Island”“Isla Chincha Norte”“Isla del Norte Chincha”“Isla Norte Chincha”“Norte Chincha”
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Latitude
-13.62827° or 13° 37′ 42″ south
Longitude
-76.39227° or 76° 23′ 32″ west
Open location code
57R59JC5+M3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
GeoNames ID
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“North Chincha Island” goes by many names.
- French: “Îles Chincha”
- German: “Chincha-Inseln”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Chincha”
- Spanish: “Islas Chincha”
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