1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Peru
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Arequipa—1,195,700, America/Lima, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city of Peru, capital of Arequipa region.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Arequipa is GeoNames ID 3947322. Its recorded administrative path is Provincia de Arequipa → Arequipa → Peru, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Arequipa occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-06-21; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Arequipa ranks 449 by recorded population. Inside the 6 selected Peru entries it ranks 3; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 63. Its 1,195,700 population value is 1.06 times the 1,131,700 median for the country cohort and 1.46 times the 816,326 regional median. Arequipa is rank 3 among the 6 selected Peru entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Arequipa's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Arequipa's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Cochabamba at 582.479 km with 841,276 recorded people; Lima at 764.618 km with 7,737,002 recorded people; Callao at 772.918 km with 1,226,200 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 190.439 km. Compared with Cochabamba, Arequipa's recorded population is 1.42 times as large. Against Arequipa, Cochabamba follows Cochabamba → Bolivia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Bolivia cohort rather than Peru, uses America/La_Paz instead of America/Lima, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Arequipa's. Against Arequipa, Lima follows Lima Province → Peru in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Peru cohort, uses the shared America/Lima identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Arequipa's. Against Arequipa, Callao follows Callao → Peru in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Peru cohort, uses the shared America/Lima identifier, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Arequipa's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,188 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Arequipa's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3947322, the coordinate pair 16.3990 / 71.5375, country rank 3 of 6, and neighbor GeoNames 3919968 at 582.479 km bind Arequipa to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Arequipa's reference point is 16.3990° south and 71.5375° west. The IANA identifier America/Lima is shared by 6 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Arequipa's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Arequipa's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Arequipa's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Arequipa, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Arequipa's closest other entries in this atlas are Cochabamba (582.479 km), Lima (764.618 km), Callao (772.918 km).
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-21; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
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