Tacna

Tacna is a city on the of . It serves as the main gateway between Peru and .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bab al-Islam Mosque and National Railway Museum.

Mosque
The is a in Tacna, . 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.

Museum
Photo: Sapfan, Public domain.
The of Peru is located in Tacna, . The was built at the site of the old Tacna–Arica railway station, which connected the two cities.

Fountain
Photo: Nacho82, Public domain.
, is a fountain located in the of the centre of the city of Tacna, .

Tacna

Latitude
-18.0139° or 18° 0′ 50″ south
Longitude
-70.2511° or 70° 15′ 4″ west
Population
286,000
Elevation
567 metres (1,860 feet)
IATA airport code
TCQ
United Nations Location Code
PE TCQ
Open location code
57HFXPPX+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4590192817
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3928128
Wiki­data ID
Q272795
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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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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 Wikivoyage page “Tacna”. Photo: Ale1054, CC BY-SA 4.0.