ancient ruins
Huaca Pucllana
A stepped adobe pyramid of the Lima culture, built around 500 AD from millions of vertically-stacked mud bricks, marooned among Miraflores apartment blocks. Evening tours light the ruin.
10 km · about 20 min drive
Lima region, Peru · South America
La Molina works well as a base: 10 minutes from Santa Anita - Los Ficus, 10km from Huaca Pucllana.
La Molina is a town located in Lima region, Peru. With a population of 0, it is an important destination in South America.
On a road trip, La Molina sits in Peru, where you drive on the right. It's in the America/Lima time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add La Molina to your route.
The National Agrarian University, also formally called National Agrarian University – La Molina (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina) (UNALM), is a public university in Lima, Peru. Of particular renown in the fields of agricultural, biological, and forestry sciences, it is also the only university in PeruRead more
offering degrees in meteorology. The university is organized into eight faculties which contain twelve academic departments. It is considered one of the most important higher education institutions of Peru.
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La Molina is located in Lima region, Peru, South America. The coordinates are -12.0833 latitude, -76.9500 longitude.
La Molina has a population of approximately 0 people, making it a town in Peru.
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ancient ruins
A stepped adobe pyramid of the Lima culture, built around 500 AD from millions of vertically-stacked mud bricks, marooned among Miraflores apartment blocks. Evening tours light the ruin.
10 km · about 20 min drive
restaurant
A Lima sangucheria institution since 1960, famous for the pan con chicharron: fried pork belly with sweet potato and salsa criolla, eaten standing at the counter.
10 km · about 20 min drive
restaurant
Virgilio Martinez's Barranco restaurant, whose tasting menu is organised by altitude, each course drawn from a different Peruvian ecosystem from ocean floor to high Andes. Long ranked the world's best restaurant.
11 km · about 20 min drive
museum
A stunning pre-Columbian art museum in a beautiful 18th-century viceregal mansion, showcasing 5,000 years of Peruvian history.
13 km · about 25 min drive
coastal drive
Notorious 22 km stretch of the Panamericana Norte snaking along sheer sand cliffs above the Pacific between Ancón and Chancay, often wrapped in coastal fog.
57 km · about 65 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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