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Barranco, Lima — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The sea is the district's front edge. Artists, musicians and designers work in this district of Lima, where the Ermita de Barranco stands above the beaches.
About Barranco
Where to stay in Barranco
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
The Ermita de Barranco is the point most stays orient on. Rooms sit in the blocks between it and the beaches, close to MAC Lima and the Museo de la Electricidad, which puts the district's galleries and its water within one walk. Lima's centre is elsewhere.
Barranco suits anyone here for the art, the surf or the marina rather than for the capital's official business, and the Obelisco a San Martín marks the civic end of the same few streets.
About Barranco
What are the main landmarks in Barranco?
Barranco keeps six named sites in three square kilometres. MAC Lima carries the art side, the Museo de la Electricidad keeps the technical collection, and the Iglesia matriz de Barranco holds the parish at the centre of the district. The Ermita de Barranco anchors the list.
Monumento a Chabuca Granda stands in the open, while the Obelisco a San Martín marks the civic side of the same compact ground.
What is the history of Barranco?
Barranco dates from 1874. The district was drawn on the seaward edge of Lima and grew into the quarter where artists, musicians and photographers from across Peru came to work, which is the reputation it still carries. Its buildings record the sequence.
Ermita de Barranco and the Iglesia matriz de Barranco belong to the older layer, the Museo de la Electricidad and MAC Lima to a later one, and the marina finished in 2008 to the most recent.
Where is Barranco?
Barranco takes a seaside slice of Lima, a district of some three square kilometres whose edge is beach and whose marina was finished in 2008.
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Updated September 2026