Tacna
Tacna is a city on the Southern Coast of Peru. It serves as the main gateway between Peru and Chile.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Marco Antonio Correa Flores, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ale1054, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bab al-Islam Mosque and National Railway Museum.
Bab al-Islam Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Renzo Burneo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bab al-Islam Mosque is a mosque in Tacna, Peru. It is the only such Peruvian place of worship that is an example of Islamic architecture in the country, though it is not the only such building.
National Railway Museum
Museum
Photo: Sapfan, Public domain.
The National Railway Museum of Peru is located in Tacna, Peru. The museum was built at the site of the old Tacna–Arica railway station, which connected the two cities.
Tacna Ornamental Fountain
Fountain
Photo: Nacho82, Public domain.
Tacna Ornamental Fountain, is a fountain located in the Paseo Cívico of the centre of the city of Tacna, Peru.
Tacna
- Type: City with 286,000 residents
- Description: city of Peru, capital of Tacna region
- Categories: border city, big city, and locality
- Location: Tacna, Province of Tacna, Tacna, Southern Coast, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-18.0139° or 18° 0′ 50″ southLongitude
-70.2511° or 70° 15′ 4″ westPopulation
286,000Elevation
567 metres (1,860 feet)IATA airport code
TCQUnited Nations Location Code
PE TCQOpen location code
57HFXPPX+FHOpenStreetMap ID
node 4590192817OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3928128Wikidata ID
Q272795
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Tacna” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Tacna”
- Arabic: “تاكنا”
- Armenian: “Տակնա”
- Asturian: “Tacna”
- Aymara: “Taqna”
- Basque: “Tacna”
- Belarusian: “Такна”
- Bengali: “টাকনা”
- Catalan: “Tacna”
- Cebuano: “Tacna”
- Chinese: “塔克納”
- Chinese: “塔克纳”
- Chuvash: “Такна”
- Czech: “Tacna”
- Czech: “Takna”
- Danish: “Tacna”
- Dutch: “Tacna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاكنا”
- Esperanto: “Tacna”
- Esperanto: “Takno”
- Estonian: “Tacna”
- Finnish: “Tacna”
- French: “Tacna”
- Georgian: “ტაკნა”
- German: “Tacna”
- Greek: “Τάκνα”
- Gujarati: “ટાક્ના”
- Hebrew: “טאקנה”
- Hindi: “टैकना”
- Hungarian: “Tacna”
- Ido: “Tacna”
- Indonesian: “Tacna”
- Irish: “Tacna”
- Italian: “Tacna”
- Japanese: “タクナ”
- Kannada: “ಟಾಕ್ನ ,”
- Korean: “타크나”
- Latin: “Tacna”
- Latvian: “Takna”
- Lithuanian: “Takna”
- Macedonian: “Такна”
- Malay: “Tacna”
- Marathi: “टासना”
- Nauru: “Tacna”
- Northern Frisian: “Tacna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tacna”
- Norwegian: “Tacna”
- Persian: “تاکنا”
- Polish: “Tacna”
- Portuguese: “Tacna”
- Quechua: “Taqna”
- Romanian: “Tacna”
- Russian: “Такна”
- Serbian: “Такна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tacna”
- Sinhala: “ටැක්නා, පේරු”
- Sinhala: “ටැක්නා”
- Slovak: “Tacna”
- Slovenian: “Tacna”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Heróica de Tacna”
- Spanish: “Heróica Ciudad de San Pedro de Tacna”
- Spanish: “San Pedro de Tacna”
- Spanish: “Tacna”
- Swedish: “Tacna”
- Tamil: “டாக்னா”
- Tatar: “Такна”
- Telugu: “టాక్న”
- Thai: “Tacna”
- Thai: “ซานเปโดรเดตักนา”
- Thai: “ตักนา”
- Turkish: “Tacna”
- Twi: “Tacna”
- Ukrainian: “Такна”
- Urdu: “تاکنا”
- Venetian: “Tacna”
- Vietnamese: “Tacna”
- Volapük: “Tacna”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tacna”
- Western Armenian: “Թաքնա”
- Wu Chinese: “塔克纳”
- “Tacna”
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