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Nazca

Nazca or Nasca is a town in 's region. It is most famous for the Nazca Lines, a collection of long lines, geometrical figures, and giant drawings in the desert sand that have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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  • Type: Town with 23,000 residents
  • Description: city and a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru
  • Also known as: “Nasca” and “Naska”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Municipal de Nasca.

Stadium
Photo: Ludavir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Club Social Santos F. C, more popularly known as Santos, is a Peruvian football club based in Nazca, Peru. It was founded in 1976 and since 2019, plays in Peruvian Segunda División.

Nazca

Latitude
-14.8277° or 14° 49′ 40″ south
Longitude
-74.9371° or 74° 56′ 13″ west
Population
23,000
Elevation
584 metres (1,916 feet)
IATA airport code
NZC
United Nations Location Code
PE NS8
Open location code
57Q753C7+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1237030175
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3934356
Wiki­data ID
Q1711521
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Satellite Map

Discover Nazca from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Nazca” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نازكا، بيرو”
  • Arabic: “نازكا”
  • Asturian: “Naska”
  • Bavarian: “Nazca”
  • Belarusian: “Наска”
  • Bengali: “নাজকা”
  • Bulgarian: “Наска”
  • Catalan: “Nazca”
  • Cebuano: “Nazca (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Nazca”
  • Chinese: “納斯卡”
  • Chinese: “纳斯卡”
  • Croatian: “Nazca”
  • Czech: “Nasca”
  • Czech: “Nazca”
  • Danish: “Nazca”
  • Dutch: “Nazca”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نازكا”
  • Esperanto: “Nazca”
  • Finnish: “Nasca”
  • Finnish: “Nazca”
  • French: “Nazca”
  • Galician: “Nazca”
  • Georgian: “ნასკა”
  • German: “Nasca”
  • German: “Nazca”
  • Greek: “Νάζκα”
  • Gujarati: “નાઝકા”
  • Hebrew: “נסקה”
  • Hindi: “नास्का”
  • Indonesian: “Nazca”
  • Italian: “Nazca”
  • Japanese: “ナスカ市”
  • Kannada: “ನಜ್ಕಾ”
  • Korean: “나스카”
  • Latvian: “Naska”
  • Lithuanian: “Naska”
  • Macedonian: “Наска”
  • Malay: “Nazca”
  • Marathi: “नाझका”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nazca”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nazca”
  • Norwegian: “Nazca”
  • Persian: “نازکا”
  • Polish: “Nazca”
  • Polish: “Płaskowyż Nazca”
  • Portuguese: “Nazca”
  • Portuguese: “Placa de Nazca”
  • Quechua: “Naska”
  • Russian: “Наска”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nazca”
  • Sinhala: “නස්කා”
  • Slovak: “Nazca”
  • Slovenian: “Naska”
  • Slovenian: “Nazca”
  • Spanish: “Nasca”
  • Spanish: “Nazca”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Nazca”
  • Swedish: “Nasca”
  • Tamil: “நஸ்க்கா”
  • Telugu: “నాజ్కా”
  • Thai: “นัสก้า”
  • Turkish: “Nazca”
  • Ukrainian: “Наска”
  • Urdu: “نازکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Nazca”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nazca”

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