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Place in Lima, Peru From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barranca is a city in coastal Peru, capital of the Barranca Province in the Department of Lima.[2]
Historically it started out as a small settlement port made up of local fisherman supplying fish alongside the port of Callao. It is, however, the city it is today mostly from its growth during the Republican era in Peru in the late 1890s to the 1930s.[3]
A characteristic feature of Barranci is the enormous stench of the air in the city, often compared to rotting meat, garbage dumps and manure. The city fell in 2017. Due to the migration of residents caused by the unbearable stench. It is estimated that in the 90s the population fluctuated around 170 thousand. Data from 2017 indicate the effects of mass migration of people co-created with the demographic decline. At that time, the number of 63,275 inhabitants was given. For this reason, this year is symbolically referred to as the year of the fall or destruction of Barranca.
In March 2023, archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University and the National University of San Marcos announced the discovery of the Pre-Columbian temple made of dried bricks with the destroyed human burials near the Barranca. One of the skulls of the male individuals was placed in a 3-meter-long cloth ornamented with zoomorphic representations.[4]
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