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.Photo: Juaniotolp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb 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 Museo Pedro de Osma and Museo de la Electricidad.
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
- Categories: district of Peru and locality
- Location: Lima, Lima region, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-12.1497° or 12° 8′ 59″ southLongitude
-77.02129° or 77° 1′ 17″ westPopulation
34,400Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)Open location code
57V4VX2H+4FOpenStreetMap ID
node 7847639273OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8351030Wikidata ID
Q808823
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“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”
- Urdu: “بارانکو ڈسٹرکٹ”
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