Piraju

Piraju is a municipality in the state of in . The population is 29,970 in an area of 504.5 km². The elevation is 646 m. This place name comes from the Tupi language, meaning "yellow fish".
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  • Type: Town with 29,400 residents
  • Description: municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil
  • Also known as: Pirajú

Piraju

Latitude
-23.19385° or 23° 11′ 38″ south
Longitude
-49.38426° or 49° 23′ 3″ west
Population
29,400
Elevation
561 metres (1,841 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BR PJA
Open location code
588GRJ48+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 368264871
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3453610
Wiki­data ID
Q1795515
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Piraju” goes by many names.
  • Basque: Piraju
  • Bishnupriya: পিরাজু
  • Catalan: Piraju
  • Cebuano: Piraju
  • Chechen: Пиражу (Бразилия)
  • Chechen: Пиражу
  • Chinese: 皮拉茹 (巴西)
  • Chinese: 皮拉茹
  • Dutch: Piraju
  • Esperanto: Piraju
  • French: Piraju
  • German: Piraju
  • Hungarian: Piraju
  • Irish: Piraju
  • Italian: Piraju
  • Kazakh: Пиражу
  • Macedonian: Пиражу
  • Malagasy: Piraju
  • Mazanderani: پیراژو
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Piraju
  • Norwegian: Piraju
  • Polish: Piraju
  • Portuguese: Piraju
  • Romanian: Piraju
  • Russian: Пиражу
  • Swedish: Piraju
  • Tatar: Пиражу (Бразилия)
  • Tatar: Пиражу
  • Turkish: Piraju
  • Vietnamese: Piraju
  • Volapük: Piraju
  • Waray (Philippines): Piraju
  • Welsh: Piraju

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Piraju”. Photo: Reynaldo, CC BY 2.5.