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Southern Sierra
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Colca Canyon

The Colca Canyon is a of the in southern , located about 160 kilometres northwest of . With a depth of about 1000 – 2000 m, it is one of the deepest canyons in the world.
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Colca Canyon

Latitude
-15.5945° or 15° 35′ 40″ south
Longitude
-72.0609° or 72° 3′ 39″ west
Elevation
3,193 metres (10,476 feet)
Open location code
57P9CW4Q+5J
Open­Street­Map ID
way 436184827
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­valley
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6941093
Wiki­data ID
Q1107685
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Colca Canyon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أخدود كولكا”
  • Arabic: “خانق كولكا”
  • Arabic: “وادي كولكا”
  • Bulgarian: “Колка (каньон)”
  • Bulgarian: “Колка”
  • Catalan: “Canyó del Colca”
  • Catalan: “Canyó del riu Colca”
  • Catalan: “Vall del riu Colca”
  • Cebuano: “Colca Canyon”
  • Chinese: “科尔卡峡谷”
  • Dutch: “Colca canyon”
  • Dutch: “Colca Canyon”
  • Dutch: “Colca Kloof”
  • Dutch: “Colcakloof”
  • Dutch: “Cruz del Condor”
  • Finnish: “Colca Canyon”
  • French: “Canon de Colca”
  • French: “Cañon de colca”
  • French: “Cañon de Colca”
  • French: “Cañon De Colca”
  • French: “Canyon de Colca”
  • German: “Colca Canon”
  • German: “Colca Cañon”
  • German: “Colca-Tal”
  • Hebrew: “קניון קולקה”
  • Italian: “Cañon de Colca”
  • Italian: “Canyon Colca”
  • Italian: “Canyon del Colca”
  • Italian: “Valle del Colca”
  • Lithuanian: “Colcos kanjonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolkos kanjonas”
  • Malayalam: “കോൾക്ക കാന്യൺ”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colca-dalen”
  • Polish: “Kanion Colca”
  • Portuguese: “Vale do Colca”
  • Quechua: “Cañon del Colca”
  • Quechua: “Qullqa qhichwa”
  • Quechua: “Qullqa Qhichwa”
  • Romanian: “canionul Colca”
  • Russian: “Каньон Колка”
  • Russian: “Колка (каньон)”
  • Russian: “Колка”
  • Spanish: “Canon Colca”
  • Spanish: “Canón Colca”
  • Spanish: “Cañon Colca”
  • Spanish: “Cañón Colca”
  • Spanish: “Canon del Colca”
  • Spanish: “Canón del Colca”
  • Spanish: “Cañon del Colca”
  • Spanish: “Cañón del Colca”
  • Spanish: “Colca”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Cailloma”
  • Spanish: “Valle del colca”
  • Spanish: “Valle del Colca”
  • Ukrainian: “Каньйон Колка”
  • Ukrainian: “Каньйон Колька”
  • Ukrainian: “Колка (долина)”
  • Ukrainian: “Колка”
  • Ukrainian: “Колька (долина)”

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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 “Colca Canyon”. Photo: S23678, CC BY-SA 3.0.