Vilcabamba
Vilcabamba, meaning Sacred Valley, is a quiet, scenic, peaceful town near the Podocarpus National Park in southern Ecuador.
- Type: Town with 4,480 residents
- Description: village and rural parish of Loja Province in Ecuador
- Also known as: “La Victoria”, “Victoria”, “Vilcabamba - Loja”, “Vilcabamba en Ecuador”, “Vilcabamba, Ecuador”, and “Vilcapamba”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Madre Tierra Resort and Spa.
Vilcabamba
- Categories: human settlement, parish of Ecuador, and locality
- Location: Vilcabamba (Victoria), Loja Canton, Loja, Andean Highlands, Ecuador, South America
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Latitude
-4.2607° or 4° 15′ 39″ south
Longitude
-79.2226° or 79° 13′ 21″ west
Population
4,480
Elevation
1,699 metres (5,574 feet)
Open location code
6772PQQG+PX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Vilcabamba” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vilcabamba”
- Chinese: “比爾卡班巴（厄瓜多）”
- Chinese: “比爾卡班巴（厄瓜多爾）”
- Czech: “Vilcabamba”
- Dutch: “Vilcabamba”
- French: “Vilcabamba”
- German: “Vilcabamba”
- Irish: “Vilcabamba”
- Italian: “Vilcabamba”
- Japanese: “ビルカバンバ (エクアドル)”
- Lithuanian: “Vilkabamba”
- Quechua: “Willkapampa”
- Slovak: “Vilcabamba”
- Spanish: “Vilcabamba”
- Swedish: “Vilcabamba”
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