Barranca
Barranca is a small coastal port in the Central Coast region of Peru, 190 km north of Lima. It has a population of about 140,000 people with an economy based largely on agriculture and fishing.Photo: Juliogp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 62,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Barranca, Lima, Peru
- Also known as: “Barranca, Lima”
Barranca
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Barranca District, Barranca, Lima region, Central Coast, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-10.7541° or 10° 45′ 15″ southLongitude
-77.7609° or 77° 45′ 39″ westPopulation
62,000Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)United Nations Location Code
PE BAAOpen location code
57X466WQ+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 287355649OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Waray—“Barranca” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Barranca”
- Catalan: “Barranca”
- Cebuano: “Barranca (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Barranca”
- Chinese: “巴兰卡”
- Chinese: “巴蘭卡”
- Dutch: “Barranca”
- Esperanto: “Barranca”
- French: “Barranca”
- German: “Barranca”
- Italian: “Barranca”
- Japanese: “バランカ”
- Polish: “Barranca”
- Portuguese: “Barranca”
- Quechua: “Barranca, Lima”
- Quechua: “Barranca”
- Russian: “Барранка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Barranca”
- Spanish: “Barranca”
- Waray (Philippines): “Barranca, Lima”
- Waray (Philippines): “Barranca”
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