Huacachina
Sign in to saveHuacachina is a village built in a small natural, but now artificially maintained, oasis and surrounded by sand dunes in southwestern Peru. It is about five kilometers from the city of Ica in the Ica District of Ica Province. The oasis was introduced as a feature on the back of the 50 nuevo sol note in 1991. Huacachina has a permanent population of around 100 people, although it hosts many tens of thousands of tourists each year.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Huacachina
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Oasis de Huacachina, Ica, Perú, 2015-07-29, DD 18.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Huacachina from a nearby sand dune
- Settlement.population_total
- 100
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Peru
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spa town
- Country
- Peru
- Located in
- Ica District
- Population
- 115
- Elevation
- 403
- Image
- Huacachina - Ica, Peru.jpg
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- Huacachina
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- Huacachina
- located in/on physical feature
- Coastal desert of Peru
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- Oasis and lake
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Huacachina is a village built in a small natural, but now artificially maintained, oasis and surrounded by sand dunes in southwestern Peru. It is about five kilometers from the city of Ica in the Ica District of Ica Province. The oasis was introduced as a feature on the back of the 50 nuevo sol note in 1991. Huacachina has a permanent population of around 100 people, although it hosts many tens of thousands of tourists each year.
The name comes from , possibly shortened from .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huacachina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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