Barranco
Barranco is a suburb or barrio of Lima the capital city of Peru. Barranco is south of Miraflores with many clubs and cafes popular among college students in Lima.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 34,400 residents
- Description: district of Lima, Peru
- Also known as: “Barranco District”
- Neighbors: Miraflores
Photo: Donairesunovi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima and Museo de la Electricidad.
Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima
Museum
Photo: Ibrehaut, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima is a contemporary art museum in Barranco District, Lima, Peru. The museum was designed by Peruvian architect Frederick Cooper Llosa and built on land donated by the Municipality of Barranco.
Bridge of Sighs
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bridge of Sighs is a wooden pedestrian overpass located between the Hermitage of Barranco and the Paseo Chabuca Granda in Barranco District, in Lima, Peru.
Barranco
- Category: district of Peru
- Location: Lima, Lima region, Peru, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Barranco” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բարրանկո”
- Aymara: “Barranco jisk’a t’aqa suyu”
- Catalan: “Barranco”
- Catalan: “Districte de Barranco”
- Cebuano: “Barranco (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Barranco”
- Chinese: “巴蘭科區”
- Czech: “Barranco”
- Dutch: “Barranco”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Barranco”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto de Barranco”
- French: “Barranco”
- French: “District de Barranco”
- German: “Barranco”
- German: “Distrikt Barranco”
- Hebrew: “באראנקו”
- Italian: “Barranco”
- Italian: “Distretto di Barranco”
- Portuguese: “Barranco”
- Quechua: “Barranco distritu”
- Quechua: “Distrito de Barranco”
- Russian: “Барранко”
- Spanish: “Barranco (Lima)”
- Spanish: “Barranco”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Barranco”
- Swedish: “Barranco”
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