Matucana
Matucana is a town in central Peru, capital of the Matucana District located in the Huarochirí Province, in the Department of Lima. It is located to the east of Lima at 2,378 m above sea level, along the Central Highway at km 74.- Type: Town with 2,550 residents
- Description: capital city of Huarochirí, Lima, Peru
- Also known as: “Matucana, Peru”
Matucana
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Matucana District, Huarochirí Province, Lima region, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-11.84473° or 11° 50′ 41″ south
Longitude
-76.38606° or 76° 23′ 10″ west
Population
2,550
Elevation
2,472 metres (8,110 feet)
Open location code
57W55J47+4H
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Matucana” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Matucana”
- Aymara: “Matukana”
- Cebuano: “Matucana (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Matucana”
- Chinese: “馬圖卡納”
- Dutch: “Matucana”
- French: “Matucana”
- German: “Matucana”
- Italian: “Matucana”
- Japanese: “マツカナ”
- Japanese: “マトゥカナ”
- Portuguese: “Matucana”
- Quechua: “Matukana”
- Russian: “Матукана”
- Slovenian: “Matucana”
- Spanish: “Matucana”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matucana, Peru”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matucana”
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