Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Peru
Detourmap lists 234 places in Peru, across 2 kinds of detour; archaeological & historic sites are the largest group (137). Best known: Machu Picchu. 145 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 234
- Oldest here
- Montegrande, Peru 3100 BC
- Little known
- 145 of 234
- City pages
- 2
By region
2 first-level divisions of Peru have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
2 cities in Peru have enough places for a page of their own.
Archaeological & historic sites in Peru 137
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1.Machu Picchu
Archaeological · 15th century · Iconic
15th-century Inca citadel in the Peruvian Andes and UNESCO World Heritage Site
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2.Nazca lines
Archaeological · 2nd century BC · Iconic
Large geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in Peru
Nature & landscapes in Peru 97
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3.Huascarán National Park
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
World Heritage Site and national park in Peru
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4.Río Abiseo National Park
Nature · 20th century · Renowned
World Heritage Site and national park in Peru
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Peru?
Machu Picchu, 15th century. 15th-century Inca citadel in the Peruvian Andes and UNESCO World Heritage Site. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Peru?
234: 137 archaeological & historic sites and 97 nature & landscapes. 145 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Peru?
Montegrande, Peru, dated to 3100 BC. 21 of the 234 places here carry a founding date at all, and 9 of those predate the year 1000.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.