Santa is a city on the north coast of Peru, on the left bank of the Santa River about 2.6 kilometres from the Pacific Ocean, and the capital of Santa District in Santa Province of the Ancash Region. It was founded as Santa María de la Parrilla. Around 1527 an indigenous settlement called Saucha, built of reed houses, stood on the river bank. Francisco Pizarro arrived on 13 May 1528 and left two Spaniards there to learn the local language, the Spaniards built a small chapel in Saucha in 1531, and then moved inland to what became Pueblo Nuevo. Viceroy Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza officially ordered the Spanish foundation on 2 August 1556 with the title of city of Santa María de la Parrilla.
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Founding Year Founding Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. citypopulation.de: City Population (citypopulation.de): Peru
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18,814 20,600
2. Santa, Peru (Wikipedia)
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2.6 km away of Pacific Ocean
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The Spanish foundation was officially ordered on August 2, 1556
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The Spanish foundation was officially ordered on August 2, 1556, by viceroy Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, with the title of city of Santa María de la Parrilla.
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is a city on the north coast of Peru located on the left bank of Santa River
View the Source3. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): Opentopodata SRTM 90 m elevation for Santa
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)SRTM 90 m elevation at the infobox coordinates of the city
"elevation": 26.0
SRTM 90 m elevation, band by the lane rule of 10 m or less sea-level, to 500 m lowland, to 1500 m highland
"elevation": 26.0
View the Source 4. Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koppen-Geiger climate classification updated (ASCII data)
Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Grid cell -8.75 -78.75 BWhQuote, Grid cell -8.75 -78.75 BWh
-8.75 -78.75 BWh
5. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, southamerica zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseZone America/Lima, standard offset -5:00Quote, Zone America/Lima, standard offset -5:00
America/Lima
Peru (Wikipedia)
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is a country in western South America
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