Ica
Nasca Province
Nazca District

Cahuachi

Cahuachi, in , was a major ceremonial center of the Nazca culture, based from about 1–500 CE in the coastal area of Peru's central Andes. It overlooked some of the .
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: archaeological site
  • Also known as: “Cahuachi archaeological site”, “Cahuachi Hacienda”, “Cahuachi temple-piramyd”, and “Hacienda Cahuachi”

Cahuachi

Latitude
-14.81845° or 14° 49′ 6″ south
Longitude
-75.11642° or 75° 6′ 59″ west
Elevation
364 metres (1,194 feet)
Open location code
57Q65VJM+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 73658343
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3946324
Wiki­data ID
Q1025802
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Cahuachi” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Каўачы”
  • Catalan: “Cahuachi”
  • Dutch: “Cahuachi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاهواتشى”
  • French: “Cahuachi”
  • Georgian: “კაუაჩი”
  • German: “Cahuachi”
  • German: “Cahuáchi”
  • Hebrew: “קהואצ’י”
  • Italian: “Cahuachi”
  • Japanese: “カワチ”
  • Lithuanian: “Kahuačis”
  • Lithuanian: “Kauačis”
  • Macedonian: “Кавачи”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cahuachi”
  • Polish: “Cahuachi”
  • Portuguese: “Cahuachi”
  • Quechua: “Cahuachi”
  • Quechua: “Qhawachi”
  • Quechua: “Qhawachiq”
  • Russian: “Кауачи”
  • Spanish: “Cahuachi”
  • Spanish: “Qhawachi”
  • Ukrainian: “Кавачі”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cahuachi”. Photo: Ed88, CC BY-SA 3.0.