Colca Canyon
The Colca Canyon is a canyon of the Colca River in southern Peru, located about 160 kilometres northwest of Arequipa. With a depth of about 3,270 metres, it is one of the deepest canyons in the world.
Colca Canyon
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 3,193 metres
- Description: valley
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and landform
- Location: Arequipa, Southern Sierra, Peru, South America
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=valley
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “Cañón del Colca”
- Spanish: “Colca”
- Spanish: “Valle del colca”
- Spanish: “Valle del Colca”
- Swedish: “Colca”
- Ukrainian: “Каньйон Колка”
- Ukrainian: “Каньйон Колька”
- Ukrainian: “Колка (долина)”
- Ukrainian: “Колка”
- Ukrainian: “Колька (долина)”
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