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Peru

Tumbes Department

Tumbes is a department of Peru. It is located in the country's northwestern coast, bordering . Due to its location near the Equator, it has a warm climate, with beaches that are considered among the finest in Peru.
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  • Type: State with 200,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Department of Tumbes”, “Provincia Litoral de Tumbes”, “Provincia Litoral Tumbes”, “Tumbes”, “Tumbes department”, “Tumbes region”, “Tumbes Region”, and “Tumbes, Peru”

Tumbes Department

Latitude
-3.8333° or 3° 50′ south
Longitude
-80.5° or 80° 30′ west
Population
200,000
Elevation
159 metres (522 feet)
Open location code
668X5G82+M2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1230775012
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3691146
Wiki­data ID
Q209597
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Tumbes Department” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم تومبيس”
  • Aragonese: “Departamento de Tumbes”
  • Asturian: “Tumbes”
  • Aymara: “Tumbes Jach’a Suyu”
  • Aymara: “Tumpis jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Tumpis jacha suyu”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Тумбес”
  • Belarusian: “Тумбес”
  • Belarusian: “Тумбэс”
  • Bengali: “তুম্বেস বিভাগ”
  • Bulgarian: “Тумбес”
  • Catalan: “departament de Tumbes”
  • Catalan: “departamento de Tumbes”
  • Catalan: “regió de Tumbes”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Tumbes”
  • Catalan: “Tumbes”
  • Cebuano: “Tumbes”
  • Chinese: “Tumbes Khu”
  • Chinese: “通貝斯大區”
  • Chinese: “通贝斯大区”
  • Czech: “Tumbes”
  • Danish: “Tumbes”
  • Dutch: “Tumbes”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento de Tumbes”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Tumbes”
  • Esperanto: “Tumbesio”
  • Finnish: “Tumbesin alue”
  • French: “Region de Tumbes”
  • French: “Tumbes”
  • Georgian: “ტუმბესი”
  • Georgian: “ტუმბესის რეგიონი”
  • German: “PE-TUM”
  • German: “Region Tumbes”
  • German: “Tumbes”
  • Greek: “Τάμπες”
  • Gujarati: “ટમ્બ્સ વિભાગ”
  • Hindi: “त्यूम्बेस विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Tumbes megye”
  • Indonesian: “DepartamentoTumbes”
  • Indonesian: “Region Tumbes”
  • Indonesian: “Región Tumbes”
  • Indonesian: “Tumbes region”
  • Indonesian: “Tumbes”
  • Italian: “regione di Tumbes”
  • Italian: “Regione di Tumbes”
  • Italian: “Tumbes”
  • Japanese: “トゥンベス”
  • Japanese: “トゥンベス県”
  • Kannada: “ತುಂಬೇಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Korean: “툼베스주”
  • Ladino: “Tumbes”
  • Latin: “Regio Tumbense”
  • Latin: “Regio Tumbensis”
  • Latin: “Regio Tumbesensis”
  • Latin: “Tumbes Regio”
  • Latvian: “Tumbesas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Tumbeso departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Тумбес”
  • Malay: “Negeri Tumbes”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Tumbes”
  • Marathi: “टुबेस विभाग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tumbes Khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tumbes-regionen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tumbes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tumbes-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Tumbes”
  • Persian: “منطقه تومبس”
  • Polish: “Region Tumbes”
  • Polish: “Tumbes”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Tumbes”
  • Portuguese: “Tumbes”
  • Quechua: “Tumpis suyu”
  • Quechua: “Tumpis Suyu”
  • Quechua: “Tunpis suyu”
  • Russian: “Тумбес”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tumbes (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tumbes”
  • Sinhala: “ටම්බස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Sinhala: “ටුම්බීස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento de Tumbes”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Tumbes”
  • Slovenian: “PE-TUM”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Tumbes”
  • Spanish: “Región de Tumbes”
  • Spanish: “Región Tumbes”
  • Spanish: “Tumbes”
  • Swedish: “Tumbes”
  • Tamil: “டும்பஸ் துறை”
  • Telugu: “టంబెస్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Telugu: “టంబెస్ విభాగం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นตุมเบส”
  • Turkish: “Tumbe Departmanı”
  • Turkish: “Tumbes bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Тумбес”
  • Urdu: “تومبیس ریجن”
  • Urdu: “تومبیس علاقہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực hành chính Tumbes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tumbes”
  • Western Armenian: “Թումպիս տարածաշրջան”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹمبس”
  • Wu Chinese: “通贝斯大区”
  • “Tumbes”

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