La Marina Lighthouse, Lighthouse in Miraflores, Peru.

La Marina Lighthouse is a 22-metre cast-iron tower of 319 dismantlable parts and 1,750 bolts, weighing 60,000 kg, painted dark navy blue with two white bands. It stands in Parque del Faro on the Miraflores cliffs, with a gallery, lantern and a focal height of 108 m above the Pacific.

The lighthouse was commissioned from the Chance Bros firm and built in 1900 at Punta Coles, south of the port of Ilo, where it first entered service on 24 February 1921. In December 1973 the Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación of the Peruvian Navy dismantled it and rebuilt it in Miraflores, in Parque el Faro, which marks a century of Peruvian navigation.

The park around the tower is named Parque del Faro and marks a century of Peruvian navigation. The tower carries the words "FARO" and "LA MARINA" in gold letters on its lower black band, and a gold fouled anchor with "NAVAL" above it, the mark of the Peruvian Navy's hydrography service. A persistent local story credits the French engineer Gustave Eiffel with the design, though no document supports it.

The lighthouse stands in Parque del Faro, one of the cliff-top parks along the Miraflores malecón, reached on foot from the district's coastal walkway. The tower itself is not open for climbing; visitors see it from the park grounds. Its light shows three white flashes every fifteen seconds, visible 18 nautical miles out at sea.

The tower is made of cast iron in 319 dismantlable parts, held together by 1,750 bolts and weighing 60,000 kg in total. A persistent urban legend credits Gustave Eiffel's firm with its manufacture, but no document supports this; the construction was ordered from Chance Bros of Sweden.