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Candarave
Sign in to saveCandarave is a town in southern Peru. It is the capital of the province of the same name in the department of Tacna.
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Place details
- Locality
- Candarave
- Region
- Tacna
- Country
- Perú
- Population
- 3,415
- Timezone
- America/Lima
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Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.official_name
- Candarave
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Anochecer en la plaza central de Candarave.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Nighttime at the Main Square
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Peru
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tacna
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Candarave
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Candarave
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Mario Genaro Copa Conde
- Settlement.timezone
- PET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- -5
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- Peru
- Located in
- Tacna Department
- Elevation
- 3415
- Capital of
- Candarave District
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- Candarave
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Geography
- Climate
- References
Candarave is a town in southern Peru. It is the capital of the province of the same name in the department of Tacna.
== Etymology == Peruvian linguist Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino speculates that the name comes from kanta-ra-wi, an Aymara word meaning "place of many lodgings".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Candarave” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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