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Places

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Paracas Peninsula The Paracas Peninsula is a desert peninsula within the boundaries of the Paracas National Reserve, a marine reserve that extends south along the coast of Peru. The only marine reserve in the country, it is a designated UNESCO The United Nat ...
, located in the Ica Region of Peru * Paracas Bay, located in the Pisco Province of the Ica Region in Peru *
Paracas (municipality) Paracas is the capital of the Paracas District in the Ica Region in Peru. A small port town catering to tourism, Paracas serves as the jumping point for tours to Islas Ballestas and to Paracas National Reserve. The Paracas Bay, protected by Parac ...
, the capital city of the Paracas District *
Paracas District Paracas District is one of eight districts of the province Pisco in Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_sym ...
, located in the Pisco Province of the Ica Region in Peru *
Paracas National Reserve Paracas National Reserve is a protected area located in the region of Ica, Peru and protects desert and marine ecosystems for their conservation and sustainable use. There are also archaeological remains of the Paracas culture inside the reserve ...


Paracas civilization

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Paracas culture The Paracas culture was an Andean society existing between approximately 800 BCE and 100 BCE, with an extensive knowledge of irrigation and water management and that made significant contributions in the textile arts. It was located in what tod ...
, an Andean society that existed in Peru between approximately 750 BC and 100 AD *
Paracas Candelabra The Paracas Candelabra, also called the Candelabra of the Andes, is a well-known prehistoric geoglyph found on the northern face of the Paracas Peninsula at Pisco Bay in Peru. Pottery found nearby has been radio carbon dated to 200 BCE, the ...
, a prehistoric geoglyph on the Paracas Peninsula * Paracas textile


Other uses

* Hotel Paracas, Pisco, Peru; a luxury resort hotel * Savo Parača, president of the basketball club ''
KK Lovćen KK, K.K., kK, k.k., or other sequences of two k's with or without punctuation may refer to: Arts and media *KK, the production code for the 1967 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Faceless Ones'' * "KK" (song), a 2014 song by Wiz Khalifa * Kk. or Kirk ...
'' * Nikola Parača (born 1999), basketball player on the ''
KK Lovćen KK, K.K., kK, k.k., or other sequences of two k's with or without punctuation may refer to: Arts and media *KK, the production code for the 1967 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Faceless Ones'' * "KK" (song), a 2014 song by Wiz Khalifa * Kk. or Kirk ...
'' * Paraca (racehorse), winner of the 2003
Birthday Card Stakes The Birthday Card Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 3 Thoroughbred quality handicap horse race, for fillies and mares aged three years old and upwards, over a distance of 1200 metres, held at Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney, Australia in March. ...
, 2004 D.C. McKay Stakes


See also

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Paracas–Arequipa–Antofalla terrain Arequipa-Antofalla is a basement unit underlying the central Andes in northwestern Argentina, western Bolivia, northern Chile and southern Peru. Geologically, it corresponds to a craton, terrane or block of continental crust. Arequipa-Antofalla ...
, a geological unit of the Central Andes * Nazca (disambiguation), including the post-Paracas * {{disambig, geo