Nazca
Nazca or Nasca is a town in Peru's Southern Coast region. It is most famous for the Nazca Lines, a collection of long lines, geometrical figures, and giant drawings in the desert sand that have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.Photo: Drmad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: bluelemur, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Nazca
- Type: Town with 23,000 residents
- Description: city and a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Nazca District, Nasca Province, Ica, Southern Coast, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-14.8277° or 14° 49' 40" southLongitude
-74.9371° or 74° 56' 13" westPopulation
23,000Elevation
584 metres (1,916 feet)IATA airport code
NZCUnited Nations Location Code
PE NS8Open Location Code
57Q753C7+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1237030175OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3934356Wikidata ID
Q1711521Nazca Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Nazca
- Arabic: نازكا، بيرو
- Asturian: Naska
- Bavarian: Nazca
- Belarusian: Наска
- Bengali: নাজকা
- Bulgarian: Наска
- Catalan: Nazca
- Cebuano: Nazca (kapital sa distrito)
- Cebuano: Nazca
- Chinese: 納斯卡
- Chinese: 纳斯卡
- Croatian: Nazca
- Czech: Nasca
- Czech: Nazca
- Danish: Nazca
- Dutch: Nazca
- Egyptian Arabic: نازكا
- English: Nasca
- English: Naska
- Esperanto: Nazca
- Finnish: Nasca
- Finnish: Nazca
- French: Nazca
- Georgian: ნასკა
- German: Nasca
- German: Nazca
- Greek: Νάζκα
- Gujarati: નાઝકા
- Hebrew: נסקה
- Hindi: नास्का
- Indonesian: Nazca
- Italian: Nazca
- Japanese: ナスカ市
- Kannada: ನಜ್ಕಾ
- Korean: 나스카
- Latvian: Naska
- Lithuanian: Naska
- Macedonian: Наска
- Malay: Nazca
- Marathi: नाझका
- Norwegian: Nazca
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nazca
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nazca
- Persian: نازکا
- Polish: Nazca
- Polish: Płaskowyż Nazca
- Portuguese: Nazca
- Portuguese: Placa de Nazca
- Quechua: Naska
- Russian: Наска
- Serbo-Croatian: Nazca
- Sinhala: නස්කා
- Slovak: Nazca
- Slovenian: Nazca
- Spanish: Nasca
- Spanish: Nazca
- Spanish: Provincia de Nazca
- Swedish: Nasca
- Tamil: நஸ்க்கா
- Telugu: నాజ్కా
- Thai: นัสก้า
- Turkish: Nazca
- Ukrainian: Наска
- Urdu: نازکا
- Vietnamese: Nazca
- Waray (Philippines): Nazca
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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 Nazca. Photo: bluelemur, CC BY-SA 2.0.