Barranca
Barranca is a small coastal port in the Central Coast region of Peru, 190 km north of Lima. It has a population of about 140,000 people with an economy based largely on agriculture and fishing.Photo: Juliogp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barranca
- Type: Town with 62,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Barranca, Lima, Peru
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Barranca District, Barranca, Lima region, Central Coast, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-10.7541° or 10° 45' 15" southLongitude
-77.7609° or 77° 45' 39" westPopulation
62,000Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)United Nations Location Code
PE BAAOpen Location Code
57X466WQ+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 287355649OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3946820Wikidata ID
Q2582671Barranca Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Barranca, Lima
- Asturian: Barranca
- Catalan: Barranca
- Cebuano: Barranca (kapital sa distrito)
- Cebuano: Barranca
- Chinese: 巴兰卡
- Chinese: 巴蘭卡
- Dutch: Barranca
- English: Barranca, Lima
- French: Barranca
- German: Barranca
- Italian: Barranca
- Japanese: バランカ
- Polish: Barranca
- Portuguese: Barranca
- Quechua: Barranca, Lima
- Quechua: Barranca
- Russian: Барранка
- Serbo-Croatian: Barranca
- Spanish: Barranca
- Waray (Philippines): Barranca
Other Places Named Barranca
In the Area
Barranca is situated close to the neighbourhoods San Valentín and Las Palmeras.
- PotaoVillage, 5 km northeast
- Chiu-ChiuVillage, 5 km northeast
- Supe Puerto DistrictTown, 6 km south
- Supe PuertoTown, 7 km southeast
- PativilcaTown, 7 km north
- UpacaVillage, 10 km north
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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 Barranca. Photo: Juliogp, CC BY-SA 3.0.