Huacachina is a small town in the Ica Region, in southwestern Peru. It is located in the Ica Province, near the city of Ica in the Ica District. The town has a population of 115 (1999). Ica is a region in Peru. ... The Ica Province is the largest of five provinces of the Ica Region in Peru. ... Ica Ica is a city in Peru. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ...
Huacachina is built around a small lake in the desert. Called the "oasis of America," it serves as a resort for local families from the nearby city of Ica, and increasingly as an attraction for tourists drawn by the sport of sandboarding on sand dunes that stretch several hundred feet high. Ica Ica is a city in Peru. ... A sandboarder does a jump on Fortaleza dunes. ... This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ...
Legend holds that the lagoon was created when a beautiful native princess was apprehended at her bath by a young hunter. She fled, leaving the pool of water she had been bathing in to become the lagoon. The folds of her mantle, streaming behind her as she ran, became the surrounding sanddunes. And the woman herself is rumored to still live in the oasis as a mermaid. Coordinates: 14°5′15″S,75°45′48″W Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 519 pixelsFull resolution (1767 × 1147 pixel, file size: 3. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 519 pixelsFull resolution (1767 × 1147 pixel, file size: 3. ... A mermaid (from the Middle English mere in the obsolete sense sea (as in maritime, the Latin mare, sea) + maid(en)) is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and torso of human female and the tail of a fish. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
Paracas National Park and the Ballestas Islands, known as the Little Galapagos, for their abundant marine life, such as seals, cormorants, penguins and many sea birds, some endemic to this region, like the Inca Turn.
The attractive oasis of Huacachina set amidst impressive sand dunes about 5 km (3 miles) away from Ica.
It is a small lake with medicinal water, make you think you are in the Sahara.
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