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Arequipa

noun
1.
A city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on the site of an ancient Inca city.





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... this observatory is at the same time the history of the treatment of this problem. PICKERING, in the genuine American manner, is not satisfied with the three thirds of the sky visible from the Harvard observatory, but has also founded a daughter observatory in South America, at Arequipa in Peru. It is therefore possible for him to publish catalogues embracing the whole heaven from pole to pole. The last complete catalogue (1908) of the magnitudes of the stars is found in the "Annals of the Harvard ...
— Lectures on Stellar Statistics • Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier
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Words linked to "Arequipa" :   Peru, metropolis, city, Republic of Peru, urban center


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