Cajamarca Department
Cajamarca Province
Cajamarca

Cajamarca

Cajamarca, also known by the Quechua name, Kashamarka, is the capital and largest city of the Cajamarca Region as well as an important cultural and commercial center in the northern Andes.
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  • Type: City with 201,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Cajamarca, Peru
  • Also known as: “Caxamarca”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ransom Room and St. Catherine’s Cathedral, Cajamarca.

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The is a small building located in Cajamarca, . It is considered to be the place where the Inca Empire came to an end with the capture and eventual execution of the Inca Emperor Atahualpa.

Church
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St. Catherine's Cathedral, also called Cajamarca Cathedral, is the main place of worship of the Catholic Church in the city of Cajamarca in . Built in Baroque style it is owned by the Catholic Diocese of Cajamarca, and was declared Cultural Heritage of the Nation in Peru in 1972.

Church
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is a church.

Cajamarca

Latitude
-7.1567° or 7° 9′ 24″ south
Longitude
-78.5173° or 78° 31′ 2″ west
Population
201,000
Elevation
2,700 metres (8,858 feet)
IATA airport code
CJA
United Nations Location Code
PE CJA
Open location code
6743RFVM+83
Open­Street­Map ID
node 272378756
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3699088
Wiki­data ID
Q205119
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Cajamarca” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Cajamarca”
  • Arabic: “كاخاماركا ()”
  • Arabic: “كاخاماركا”
  • Aragonese: “Cajamarca”
  • Armenian: “Կախամարկա”
  • Asturian: “Cajamarca”
  • Asturian: “San Antonio de Cajamarca”
  • Aymara: “Qajamarka”
  • Basque: “Cajamarca”
  • Belarusian: “Кахамарка”
  • Bengali: “কাজামার্কা”
  • Bulgarian: “Кахамарка”
  • Catalan: “Cajamarca”
  • Cebuano: “Cajamarca (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Cajamarca”
  • Chinese: “卡哈馬卡”
  • Chinese: “卡哈马卡”
  • Chinese: “卡薩馬卡”
  • Chuvash: “Кахамарка”
  • Czech: “Cajamarca”
  • Danish: “Cajamarca”
  • Dutch: “Cajamarca”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاخاماركا”
  • Esperanto: “Cajamarca”
  • Esperanto: “Caŝamako”
  • Esperanto: “Kaĥamarko”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŝamako”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŝamarko”
  • Finnish: “Cajamarca”
  • French: “Cajamarca”
  • Galician: “Cajamarca”
  • Georgian: “კახამარკა”
  • German: “Cajamarca”
  • German: “Kashamarka”
  • Greek: “Κάτζαμαρκα”
  • Guarani: “Cajamarca”
  • Guarani: “Kahamarka”
  • Gujarati: “કાજમાર્કા”
  • Hebrew: “קחאמרקה”
  • Hindi: “कहामरका”
  • Hungarian: “Cajamarca”
  • Indonesian: “Cajamarca”
  • Irish: “Cajamarca”
  • Italian: “Cajamarca”
  • Japanese: “カハマルカ”
  • Japanese: “サン・アントニオ・デ・カハマルカ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಜಮಾರ್ಕ”
  • Korean: “카하마르카”
  • Latin: “Cajamarca”
  • Latin: “Caxamarca”
  • Latvian: “Kahamarka”
  • Lithuanian: “Kachamarka”
  • Macedonian: “Кахамарка”
  • Malay: “Cajamarca”
  • Marathi: “कजामार्का”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cajamarca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cajamarca”
  • Norwegian: “Cajamarca”
  • Ossetian: “Кахамаркæ”
  • Persian: “کاخامارکا”
  • Polish: “Cajamarca”
  • Portuguese: “Cajamarca”
  • Quechua: “Cajamarca”
  • Quechua: “Kashamarka”
  • Quechua: “Kaxamarca”
  • Quechua: “Qasamarka”
  • Quechua: “Qasha Marka”
  • Quechua: “Qashamarka”
  • Romanian: “Cajamarca”
  • Russian: “Кахамарка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cajamarca”
  • Silesian: “Cajamarca”
  • Sinhala: “කජමර්සා, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “කජමර්සා”
  • Slovak: “Cajamarca”
  • Slovenian: “Cajamarca”
  • Spanish: “Cajamarca”
  • Spanish: “Caxamarca”
  • Spanish: “Caxas”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Cajamarca”
  • Spanish: “Cultura de Cajamarca”
  • Spanish: “San Antonio de Cajamarca”
  • Swedish: “Cajamarca”
  • Tamil: “கேஜாமார்கா”
  • Tatar: “Кахамарка”
  • Telugu: “కజమార్క”
  • Thai: “Cajamarca”
  • Thai: “กาฆามาร์กา”
  • Thai: “กาฮามาร์กา”
  • Turkish: “Cajamarca”
  • Ukrainian: “Кахамарка”
  • Urdu: “کاخامارکا”
  • Venetian: “Cajamarca”
  • Vietnamese: “Cajamarca”
  • Volapük: “Cajamarca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cajamarca”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡哈马卡”
  • “Cajamarca”
  • “Caxamarca”

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