Ica is a city in Peru. It is the capital of Ica Department.
Ica and its surroundings are the traditional source of Pisco brandy. Ica is home to Museo Regional de Ica, a local museum with many exhibits including pre-Columbian mummies with elongated heads and with evidence of trepanning as well as furniture, paintings and other artifacts from the Spanish colonial era. Also located at Ica's north west edge is the upscale Hotel Las Dunas.
A few kilometres to the north you can find Paracas National Reservation located on the Paracas Peninsula.
Ica is known by Peruvians as the land of the sun, and despite there are the 4 seasons, you can always feel summer while visiting this region, the vacation town where the sun always shines. Going south along the coast and Pacific Ocean, a four hour drive from the capital Lima, you will find the Ica region which has four cities, Chincha, Pisco, here you will find Paracas and their beautiful sea lion islands, also the great Paracas museum with many exhibits from this pre columbian trive known as the Paracas culture, Ica, Palpa and Nazca, this last one, very known for thir famous Nazca Lines.