Máncora Lighthouse
Location & Light Range
About Máncora Lighthouse
This concrete lighthouse, built in 1978, stands 12 meters tall on a bluff above the port of Máncora. It is painted with red and white horizontal bands and features a square cylindrical tower with a lantern and gallery, rising from a square pyramidal base. The focal height reaches 34 meters, providing a geographic range of 16 nautical miles. Its light emits three white flashes every 20 seconds. Originally operating without a lantern for its first decades, its daymark was updated to its current red and white bands in 2014. The site is open to the public, although the tower itself remains closed.
Why it matters: The Máncora Lighthouse is important for safe navigation into the port and is a recognizable landmark due to its distinctive design common to other lighthouses in Peru.
Light & Optic
- Flash Type
- Flashing
- Light Color
- White
- Flash Count
- 3 flashes
- Interval
- 20s
- Raw Code
- Fl(3) W 20s
- Focal Height
- 34m
- Geographic Range
- 16NM
Construction & History
- Year Built
- 1978
Significant events: no lantern as recently as 2008, daymark changed from black and white to red and white in 2014
Visiting
- Open to public
- Site open, tower closed
Nearby Vessels
Tower & Structure
- Tower Height
- 12m
- Tower Shape
- cylindrical
- Tower Color
- with red and white horizontal bands
- Material
- concrete
Structure: square cylindrical concrete tower with lantern and gallery, rising from a square pyramidal base, painted with red and white horizontal bands
Location
- City
- Máncora
- Country
- 🇵🇪Peru
- Region
- Piura
- Sea Region
- on a bluff above the port of Máncora about 100 km (60 mi) southwest of Tumbes
- Latitude
- -4.1084°
- Longitude
- -81.0569°
References & Identifiers
- Nearest Port
- Cabo Blanco(15.0 km)
- ARLHS No.
- PER-042
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