El Paraíso
El Paraíso or Chuquitanta are the moderns names of a Late Preceramic archaeological site located in the Chillón Valley on the central coast of Peru. The site is situated several kilometers north of Lima, the capital of Peru, in the San Martin de Porres District in the Province of Lima.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dibojutri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Ruins
- Description: cultural heritage site in Peru
- Also known as: “El Paraiso” and “El Paraíso, Peru”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Huaca Capilla Márquez.
Huaca Capilla Márquez
Archaeological site
Photo: Enrique Jara, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Huaca Capilla Márquez is an archaeological site, which is situated 2 km northwest of El Paraíso.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Callao and North Lima.
Callao
Photo: Fausto Cornejo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Callao is a constitutional region in the Peruvian coast conurbation to Lima. Includes the districts of Callao, La Perla, La Punta, Bellavista, Ventanilla, Carmen de la Legua y Reynoso and Mi Perú.
North Lima
Rio Rimac North is the section of Lima north of Rio Rimac including the districts of Comas, Carabayllo, Puente Piedra, Santa Rosa, Ancón, San Martín de Porres, Los Olivos and Independencia.
El Paraíso
- Categories: archaeological site and historic site
- Location: San Martín de Porres District, Lima, Lima region, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-11.95397° or 11° 57′ 14″ southLongitude
-77.11834° or 77° 7′ 6″ westOpen location code
57W42VWJ+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 2833894605OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q4717894
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“El Paraíso” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “埃爾帕拉伊索 (祕魯)”
- Czech: “Chuquitanta”
- Czech: “El Paraíso”
- Dutch: “El Paraíso”
- Finnish: “El Paraíso”
- French: “El Paraíso”
- German: “El Paraíso”
- Italian: “El Paraíso”
- Lithuanian: “El Paraisas (Peru)”
- Lithuanian: “El Paraisas”
- Polish: “El Paraíso”
- Portuguese: “El Paraíso”
- Spanish: “El Paraiso”
- Spanish: “El Paraíso”
- Spanish: “Huaca El Paraiso”
- Spanish: “Huaca El Paraíso”
- Ukrainian: “Храм вогню в Перу”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Complejo arqueológico El Paraíso and Muralla de Chuquitanta.
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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 “El Paraíso”. Photo: Dibojutri, CC BY-SA 3.0.