Arequipa

American  

[ar-uh-kee-pah, ah-re-kee-pah] / ˌær əˈki pɑ, ˌɑ rɛˈki pɑ /

noun

1. a city in S Peru.

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Arequipa British  

/ areˈkipa, ˌærɪˈkiːpə /

noun

1. a city in S Peru, at an altitude of 2250 m (7500 ft): founded in 1540 on the site of an Inca city. Pop: 791 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

The accident in Arequipa is one of the worst in recent years in the South American nation, where road fatalities are frequent.

From Barron's

The incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning on a "rugged" stretch of the Pan-American Highway that connects Peru with Chile in the country's southern region of Arequipa.

From BBC

"In Peru, the system was designed around profitability. No effort was made to connect sparsely populated areas," explains Carlos Gordillo, an energy expert at the University of Santa María in Arequipa.

From BBC

Vargas Llosa was born in 1936 to a middle-class family in Arequipa in southern Peru.

From BBC

“I had to treat it as a emergency,” said Paredes, who worked serving lunch to miners in Arequipa, Peru, and borrowed money to fly to Mexico’s Tijuana, across from San Diego.

From Seattle Times