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| Height | 588 m.s.n.m. |
| Far | 130Km. from Ica, 205 Km. from Pisco , 433 Km. from Lima |
| Population | 52,742 (province) |
When you visit Nazca you can see the impressing feat of the Peruvian man and the impressing work of precolombine cultures. It’s famous by it’s mysterious lines.
This city was founded en 1591 by the Spanish very near the town where the antique civilizations live, then they were dominated by the Incas.
Nazca, 18 a quiet town, of slow development. It’s main economic activity is based in the agriculture and the trade. The tourism in the zone is related directly by the Nazca lines and archeologism. It has good hotels and restaurants, you can travel here by car or bus from Lima, Ica or Arequipa.
Declared "Archaeological World Heritage Site" by UNESCO (1994). Located in the arid Peruvian coastal plain, some 400 km south of Lima, the geoglyphs of Nazca and the pampas of Jumana cover about 450 sq. km. These lines, which were scratched on the surface of the ground between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500, are among archaeology's greatest enigmas because of their quantity, nature, size and continuity. The geoglyphs depict living creatures, stylized plants and imaginary beings, as well as geometric figures several kilometers long. They are believed to have had ritual astronomical functions. In order to appreciate the lines in all its magnitude, it is only possible from an airplane in flight.
Archaeological Inca center, located at 2 km (1.24 miles) East of Nazca. Constructions of plazas, deposits, fortresses, ceremonial center.
Cahuachi was a ceremonial center, a sacred destination of Nazca pilgrims between 100 and 500 AD. The ceremonies in the place included the construction of temples using thousands of
conical or wedge adobe bricks.
Archaeological complex of the Nazca culture, solar observatory, on platforms made of adobes and columns of "huarangos" trunks (variety of tree). This archaeological complex is near to Cahuachi.
Pre-Inca cemetery, in which the profanation of tombs by the huaqueros, have left open some tombs in which you can appreciate the old inhabitants' remains. It is located at 28 km (17.4 miles) to the south of Nazca.
Located at 100 km (62 miles) to the S of Nazca, it is a rich location of fossil remains, especially of whales and primitive sharks of the Tertiary Era. Small paleontological museum. To arrive to this area, you should take the Pan-American South Highway until kilometer 539 and take a detour of 1.5 km to the museum site.
Located in the coast area, to the west of the Nazca city, it is an extraordinary marine ecosystem of great biodiversity; it has a little extension of 54 hectares and has the biggest population of sea lions (seals) of the Peru concentrates.
The peninsula is characterized by its abrupt cliffs 30 meters high that hinder the access, from the high part, to the eighteen beaches that are formed at level of the reef. Besides the sea lions, in this Reserved Area inhabits the biggest colony of penguins of Humboldt (Spheniscus humboldtii) (it is considered that concentrates more than 50% of the total population of this species on the Peru), as well as zarcillos (Larosterna inca) and the three main species of dung birds (guaneras).
While the sea lions are located in the beaches and salient rocky, the penguins look for the protection of the cavities that they are formed in the walls of the cliffs and the birds rest and they nest in the sharp hillsides and in the plateau that extends in their higher area. (UNMSM)
Ica Valley - Oasis HuacachinaIca is known as an area of sand, sea, oases and valleys, the cradle of Peru's Creole culture, saints and medicine men, where the best pisco brandy is distilled and where religious fervor is strong in the worship of the Señor de Luren or the Yauca shrine. The sandy wastes of this area gave rise to major pre-Colombian civilizations, leaving traces that have survived the ravages of time and wind erosion.
The desert of Ica was inhabited by great pre- Inca civilizations as Chincha, Nazca and Paracas Culture.
Ica is the name of the department, and has 4 provinces: Ica, Pisco, Nazca, Chincha and Palpa. Ica city was founded in 1536 by the Spaniard Jerónimo de Cabrera. He gave Ica the name of "Villa de Valverde". The city was in the middle of a fertile valley. Before its foundation, the Spaniards planted grapes brought from Canary Islands (Spain).
Ica was the first city in "Nueva Castilla" (Peru in the Viceroyalty times) where wine and grape liquor were produced, and from this point they were exported to all the Spanish colonies in America. They used the port of Pisco to embark the grape liquor, giving origin to the name of one of the most famous liquors prepared in Peru, Pisco.
This beautiful oasis is located at 5 Km from Ica city, place in the desert with a small lagoon and is surrounded by sand dunes, palms and huarangos (carob tree) and beautiful houses around the shore.
By the ends of the XIX century Huacachina was practically uninhabited, until the Italian Angela Perotti rediscovered the medical properties of water and sand of the lagoon, specially for the cure of skin and rheumatism illnesses.
You may find comfortable hotels and cheap lodges, restaurants and discos that will make your trip enjoyable, ideal place for relax or for the desert adventures. Buggies and sandboarding has become popular on the sand dunes near Huacachina, an ideal area to take to the steep sandy slopes of the desert.
Location: Calle Lima 4th block It has a big collection of archaeological pieces from the regional cultures Nazca, Paracas and Inca.
Out stand funeral mummies and looms from Paracas, skulls with presence of surgery and deformed skulls, this remains show the high technology in surgery reached by the ancient Peruvian civilizations. It also has collections from the colony, independence and republican times.
Ica is very famous because of its pisco (grape liquor) and wine; a good alternative for your trip could be a visit to the wine cellars of La Caravedo, Vista Alegre, Tacama, Ocucaje and the artisan ones. In these places you will be able to learn all the process of the pisco and the wine.
This religious sanctuary contains the venerated image of "Señor de Luren", the one that was redeem from a shipwreck in 1570 in front of the coasts of Ica, coming from Spain. Señor de Luren patron of Ica, congregates each year thousands of pilgrims during the Holy Week and the third Monday of October in traditional processions. Devote people attribute miracles to the Lord. The catholic devotion in Ica also has expressions of pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Yauca, where the image of the Virgin of Yauca is venerated. Also venerated the "Beatita de Humay" and the "Melchorita" in the towns of Humay and Grocio Prado.
Famous town located at 4 km of Ica, it is well known because of the witches that cure illnesses from popular believes. If you visit Cachiche do not forget to see the statue of a witch laid on a Huarango tree. This circuit features the best of Peru's Afro-Peruvian culture, where one can savor distilled aguardiente and fermented grape musts which are typical of the area. There are also interesting pre-Hispanic archaeological sites in the area.
Chincha is synonymous of rejoicing and as such as is the cradle of Peru's Afro-Peruvian culture. Its inhabitants, who are good-humored and hospitable folk, have kept alive their traditions and customs over generations, performing their music and dances over the course of centuries.
The people of Chincha, with guitar, cajón and quijada percussion instruments in hand, will welcome visitors with open arms and make them feel at home. Located just 194 km south of Lima, in the department of Ica, Chincha and its environs provide a place to rest and fun-filled days. One ideal place for a visit is the Hacienda San José plantation, a seventeenth - century manor which hides behind its stout walls a history of Dominicans and Jesuits, Spanish noblemen and African slaves.
The plantation house lies in the district of El Carmen, 15 km from the city, and even today has conserved its superb gateways, sweeping chambers and labyrinthine passageways than run beneath it, and through which slaves were smuggled, according to legend. The district also prides itself for organizing the finest celebrations in honor of the Virgin of Carmen in December.
Pisco - Ballestas Isles - Natural Reserve of ParacasThis town was founded in 1640 and now it’s divided en Pisco town and Pisco port.
Pisco town is quietly, the people are dedicated to the agriculture, the trade and marine activities.
Pisco town has its own transport, good hotels 3* and 2*, restaurants that allow give comfortable service to tourists. In it’s beaches you can find the Saint Andrew fishers small bay, where you can find may restaurants.
Pisco has an airport. The port was displaced by the modern Saint Martin port located in the north of Paracas.
Paracas is a small place, a bay, a harbar, a Nationsal Reserve.
Situated in Pisco, with silent beaches with sun and a beautiful water almost all the year. Very near there is a nice small bay of fishers El chaco and la Puntilla and the residential zone.
Paracas has good hotel 3*, alternatives for excursions to National Reserve of Paracas, excellent beaches to the south zone of the bay.
El Chaco has good choices of marine food restaurants and you can try the famous Pisco Sour.
All harbor belongs to the National Reserve of Paracas and it’s a protected area. On the north zone it’s located la enigmatic figure “Candelabro” of big dimension now days it hasn’t been explored. The best way to see this figure is by a boat on the sea.
It has many beaches which are pacific like Lagunillas a the small bay of fishers (5km), La Mina (7km), Yumaque (9km) and Mendreta (25 km) ideal for camping, fishing or submarine hunt.
Punta Arquillo beach (8km) with stone floor, preferred for windsurfing. For enjoying the fabulous view we recommend la Catedral beach (12 km) and Los Frailes beach (17km).
It’s conformed in the bay of Paracas, it has a special meaning for us because it was here where General José de San Martín landed the 8 th of September of 1820 and began the independence camping. There is a monument with reminds us this. We can find in these andine parihuanas (flamencos), specially in Sequion which has white and red feathers. They inspirited José de San Martin the colors of our flag.
On his bay it’s located the San Martín Port.
It’s dedicated to the protecting and conservation of the marine ecosystems. For the protection of the cultural and historic patrimony of the culture Paracas (800 bc-600 ac) It’s considerated as one of the weird ecosystems and richer in the world. It was declared Natural Patrimony of the humanity by UNESCO.
Inside the reserve you have to drive or walk by the authorized roads and you have to use a guide.