Arequipa
Arequipa is a city in the Southern Coastal region of Peru just below the edge of the Altiplano, at 2,380 m above sea level and surrounded by three impressive volcanoes. It's Peru's second most important city, and the second most popular among tourists.Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Ivan Mlinaric, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Santa Catalina Monastery
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16°23′42″S 71°32′12″W / 16.39500°S 71.53667°W The Major cloister of Santa Catalina Monastery.The Monastery of Santa Catalina de Siena is a large monastery of the Dominican Second Order, located in Arequipa, Peru.
Estadio Monumental Virgen de Chapi
Photo: Rojinegro81, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio de la UNSA is a multi-purpose stadium located in Arequipa, Peru.
Estadio Melgar
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The Estadio Melgar is a multi-use stadium in Arequipa, Peru.
Arequipa
- Type: City with 844,000 residents
- Description: city of Peru, capital of Arequipa region
- Categories: big city, human settlement, capital city, million city, second largest city and locality
- Location: Arequipa, Arequipa Province, Arequipa, Southern Coast, Peru, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-16.3989° or 16° 23' 56" southLongitude
-71.537° or 71° 32' 13" westPopulation
844,000Elevation
2,355 metres (7,726 feet)IATA airport code
AQPUnited Nations Location Code
PE AQPOpen Location Code
57MCJF27+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 253855157OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3947322Wikidata ID
Q159273Arequipa Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Arequipa
- Arabic: Arequipa
- Arabic: أريكيبا
- Arabic: اريكويبا
- Armenian: Արեկիպա
- Asturian: Arequipa
- Aymara: Arequipa
- Aymara: Ariqipa
- Azerbaijani: Arekipa
- Basque: Arequipa
- Belarusian: Арэкіпа (горад)
- Belarusian: Арэкіпа
- Bengali: অ্যারেকুইপা
- Breton: Arequipa
- Bulgarian: Арекипа
- Catalan: Arequipa
- Cebuano: Arequipa
- Chinese: 阿雷克帕
- Chinese: 阿雷基帕
- Chuvash: Арекипа
- Croatian: Arequipa
- Czech: Arekipa
- Czech: Arequipa
- Danish: Arequipa
- Dutch: Arequipa
- Egyptian Arabic: اريكيبا
- Esperanto: Arekipo
- Esperanto: Arequipa
- Estonian: Arequipa
- Fijian: Arequipa
- Finnish: Arequipa
- French: Arequipa
- Galician: Arequipa
- Georgian: არეკიპა
- German: Arequipa
- Greek: Αρεκίπα
- Guarani: Arequipa
- Gujarati: અરેક્વિપા
- Hebrew: ארקיפה
- Hindi: अरेक्विपा
- Hungarian: Arequipa
- Ido: Arequipa
- Indonesian: Arequipa
- Interlingua: Arequipa
- Irish: Arequipa
- Italian: Arequipa
- Italian: Distretto di Arequipa
- Japanese: アレキパ
- Japanese: アレキーパ市歴史地区
- Kannada: ಅರೆಕ್ವಿಪಾ
- Korean: 아레키파
- Ladino: Arekipa
- Ladino: Arequipa
- Latin: Arecipa
- Latin: Arequipa
- Latvian: Arekipa
- Latvian: Arequipa
- Lithuanian: Arekipa
- Luxembourgish: Arequipa
- Macedonian: Арекипа
- Malay: Arequipa
- Maltese: Arequipa
- Maori: Arequipa
- Marathi: अरेकिपा
- Marathi: अरेक्विपा
- Moksha: Арэкипа
- Nauru: Arequipa
- Norwegian: Arequipa
- Norwegian Bokmål: Arequipa
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Arequipa
- Occitan (post 1500): Arequipa
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Arequipa
- Ossetian: Арекипæ
- Persian: آرکیپا
- Persian: ارکیپا
- Polish: Arequipa
- Portuguese: Arequipa
- Quechua: Arequipa
- Quechua: Arikipa
- Quechua: Ariqipa
- Romanian: Arequipa
- Russian: Arequipa
- Russian: Арекипа
- Scots: Arequipa
- Scottish Gaelic: Arequipa
- Serbian: Арекипа
- Serbo-Croatian: Arequipa
- Sicilian: Arequipa
- Silesian: Arequipa
- Sinhala: අරික්විපා
- Slovak: Arequipa
- Slovenian: Arequipa
- Spanish: Arequipa
- Spanish: Ciudad Blanca
- Spanish: Origen del nombre de Arequipa
- Spanish: Villa de la Asunción de Nuestra Senora del Valle Hermoso de Arequipa
- Swedish: Arequipa
- Swedish: Socobaya
- Tamil: அரேக்கிப்பா
- Tatar: Арекипа
- Telugu: అరెక్వీప
- Thai: Arequipa
- Thai: อาเรกิปา
- Thai: อาเรกีปา
- Turkish: Arequipa
- Ukrainian: Арекіпа
- Urdu: اریکیپا
- Uzbek: Arekipa
- Venetian: Arequipa
- Veps: Arekip
- Vietnamese: Arequipa
- Volapük: Arequipa
- Waray (Philippines): Arequipa
- Welsh: Arequipa
- Wu Chinese: 阿雷基帕
- Yue Chinese: 阿雷基帕
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Other Places Named Arequipa
In the Area
- La RecolectaNeighbourhood
- Nicolás de PiérolaNeighbourhood
- San LázaroNeighbourhood
- Urbanización Los ÁngelesNeighbourhood
- Urbanización Miscericordia SeñorNeighbourhood
- La GrutaNeighbourhood
Popular Destinations in Southern Coast
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Arequipa. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.