Arequipa

Arequipa is a city in the region of just below the edge of the , at 2,380 m above sea level and surrounded by three impressive volcanoes. It's Peru's second most important city, and the second most popular among tourists.
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  • Type: City with 1,010,000 residents
  • Description: city of Peru, capital of Arequipa region
  • Also known as: “aqp”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Santa Catalina Monastery and Basilica Cathedral of Arequipa.

Museum
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The Monastery of Santa Catalina de Siena is a large monastery of the Dominican Second Order, located in Arequipa, . It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa".

Church
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The it's located in the Main Square "Plaza de Armas" of the city of Arequipa, province of Arequipa, . It is the most important Catholic church of the city and also of the larger Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Arequipa since it is the base of the archbishop and the metropolitan council.

Stadium
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is a multi-purpose stadium located in Arequipa, . The stadium was built by the University of San Agustín in the early 1990s and named after the Virgin Chapi.

Arequipa

Latitude
-16.3989° or 16° 23′ 56″ south
Longitude
-71.537° or 71° 32′ 13″ west
Population
1,010,000
Elevation
2,397 metres (7,864 feet)
IATA airport code
AQP
United Nations Location Code
PE AQP
Open location code
57MCJF27+F6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 253855157
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3947322
Wiki­data ID
Q159273
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Arequipa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Arequipa”
  • Arabic: “أريكيبا”
  • Arabic: “اريكويبا”
  • Aragonese: “Arequipa”
  • Armenian: “Արեկիպա”
  • Asturian: “Arequipa”
  • Aymara: “Arequipa”
  • Aymara: “Ariqipa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Arekipa”
  • Basque: “Arequipa”
  • Belarusian: “Арэкіпа (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Арэкіпа”
  • Bengali: “অ্যারেকুইপা”
  • Breton: “Arequipa”
  • Bulgarian: “Арекипа”
  • Catalan: “Arequipa”
  • Cebuano: “Arequipa”
  • Chinese: “阿雷克帕”
  • Chinese: “阿雷基帕”
  • Chuvash: “Арекипа”
  • Croatian: “Arequipa”
  • Czech: “Arequipa”
  • Danish: “Arequipa”
  • Dutch: “Arequipa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اريكيبا”
  • Esperanto: “Arekipo”
  • Esperanto: “Arequipa”
  • Estonian: “Arequipa”
  • Fijian: “Arequipa”
  • Finnish: “Arequipa”
  • French: “Arequipa”
  • Galician: “Arequipa”
  • Georgian: “არეკიპა”
  • German: “Arequipa”
  • Greek: “Αρεκίπα”
  • Guarani: “Arequipa”
  • Gujarati: “અરેક્વિપા”
  • Hebrew: “ארקיפה”
  • Hindi: “अरेक्विपा”
  • Hungarian: “Arequipa”
  • Ido: “Arequipa”
  • Indonesian: “Arequipa”
  • Interlingua: “Arequipa”
  • Irish: “Arequipa”
  • Italian: “Arequipa”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Arequipa”
  • Japanese: “アレキーパ市歴史地区”
  • Japanese: “アレキパ”
  • Kannada: “ಅರೆಕ್ವಿಪಾ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Арекипа”
  • Korean: “아레키파”
  • Ladino: “Arekipa”
  • Ladino: “Arequipa”
  • Latin: “Arecipa”
  • Latin: “Arequipa”
  • Latvian: “Arekipa”
  • Latvian: “Arequipa”
  • Lithuanian: “Arekipa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Arequipa”
  • Macedonian: “Арекипа”
  • Malay: “Arequipa”
  • Maltese: “Arequipa”
  • Maori: “Arequipa”
  • Marathi: “अरेकिपा”
  • Marathi: “अरेक्विपा”
  • Moksha: “Арэкипа”
  • Nauru: “Arequipa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Arequipa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Arequipa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arequipa”
  • Norwegian: “Arequipa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Arequipa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Arequipa”
  • Ossetian: “Арекипæ”
  • Persian: “آرکیپا”
  • Persian: “ارکیپا”
  • Piemontese: “Arequipa”
  • Polish: “Arequipa”
  • Portuguese: “Arequipa”
  • Quechua: “Areqipa”
  • Quechua: “Arequipa”
  • Quechua: “Arikipa”
  • Quechua: “Ariqipa”
  • Romanian: “Arequipa”
  • Russian: “Arequipa”
  • Russian: “Арекипа”
  • Scots: “Arequipa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Arequipa”
  • Serbian: “Арекипа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Arequipa”
  • Sicilian: “Arequipa”
  • Silesian: “Arequipa”
  • Sinhala: “අරික්විපා”
  • Sinhala: “අරෙක්විපා, පේරු”
  • Slovak: “Arequipa”
  • Slovenian: “Arequipa”
  • Spanish: “Arequipa”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Blanca”
  • Spanish: “Origen del nombre de Arequipa”
  • Spanish: “Villa de la Asunción de Nuestra Senora del Valle Hermoso de Arequipa”
  • Swedish: “Arequipa”
  • Swedish: “Socobaya”
  • Tamil: “அரேக்கிப்பா”
  • Tatar: “Арекипа”
  • Telugu: “అరెక్వీప”
  • Thai: “Arequipa”
  • Thai: “อาเรกิปา”
  • Thai: “อาเรกีปา”
  • Turkish: “Arequipa”
  • Ukrainian: “Арекіпа”
  • Urdu: “اریکیپا”
  • Uzbek: “Arekipa”
  • Venetian: “Arequipa”
  • Veps: “Arekip”
  • Vietnamese: “Arequipa”
  • Volapük: “Arequipa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Arequipa”
  • Welsh: “Arequipa”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿雷基帕”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿雷基帕”
  • “Arequipa”

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