Piura

Piura is a department of Peru. Located on the country's northwestern coast, it is known for its tropical and dry beaches. It is the most populous department and region in Peru, its twelfth smallest department, and its fourth-most densely populated department, after , , and .
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  • State with 1,680,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 119 metres (390 feet)
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as
    “Department of Piura”
    “Piura Department”
    “Piura region”
    “Piura, Peru”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tambogrande and Angostura.
Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a small town in the Piura Province of the Piura Region in northwestern .
is a small village in Sullana Province…

Piura

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Latitude
-5° or 5° south
Longitude
-80.3333° or 80° 20′ west
Open location code
667X2M28+2M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1230775107
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3693525
Wiki­data ID
Q208183

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Piura” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ፒውራ”
  • Arabic: “إقليم بيورا”
  • Aragonese: “Departamento de Piura”
  • Aymara: “Piura Jach’a Suyu”
  • Aymara: “Piwra jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Piwra jacha suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Piura”
  • Belarusian: “П’юра”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён П’юра”
  • Bengali: “পিউরা অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиура”
  • Catalan: “departament de Piura”
  • Catalan: “departamento de Piura”
  • Catalan: “Piura”
  • Catalan: “regió de Piura”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Piura”
  • Cebuano: “Piura”
  • Chinese: “皮乌拉区”
  • Chinese: “皮乌拉地区”
  • Chinese: “皮乌拉大区”
  • Chinese: “皮烏拉地區”
  • Czech: “Piura”
  • Danish: “Piura”
  • Dutch: “Piura”
  • Esperanto: “departemento Piura”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Piura”
  • Finnish: “Piuran alue”
  • French: “Piura”
  • French: “Region de Piura”
  • Georgian: “პიურა”
  • Georgian: “პიურის რეგიონი”
  • German: “PE-PIU”
  • German: “Piura”
  • German: “Region Piura”
  • Greek: “Πιούρα”
  • Gujarati: “પિયુરા પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Piura”
  • Hindi: “पिउरा प्रदेश”
  • Hindi: “पियुरा विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Piura megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departamento Piura”
  • Indonesian: “Piura region”
  • Indonesian: “Region Piura”
  • Indonesian: “Región Piura”
  • Italian: “Piura”
  • Italian: “regione di Piura”
  • Italian: “Regione di Piura”
  • Japanese: “ピウラ県”
  • Javanese: “Piura”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಯುರಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Пиура”
  • Kirghiz: “Пиура”
  • Korean: “피우라주”
  • Ladino: “Piura”
  • Latin: “Piura Regio”
  • Latin: “Regio Piurense”
  • Latin: “Regio Piurensis”
  • Latvian: “Pjuras departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Piuros departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Piuros regionas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjuros departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjuros regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Пиура”
  • Malay: “Negeri Piura”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Piura”
  • Marathi: “पिउरा प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Piura Khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piura-regionen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piura”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piura-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Piura”
  • Oromo: “Piura”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਉਰਾ”
  • Persian: “پیورا”
  • Persian: “منطقه پیورا”
  • Polish: “Region Piura”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Piúra”
  • Portuguese: “Piura”
  • Portuguese: “Piúra”
  • Pushto: “پیورا”
  • Quechua: “Piwra suyu”
  • Quechua: “Piwra Suyu”
  • Romanian: “Piura”
  • Russian: “Пьюра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Piura (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Piura”
  • Sinhala: “පියුරා කලාපය”
  • Sinhala: “පියුරා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Slovenian: “Piura”
  • Somali: “Piura”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Piura”
  • Spanish: “Piura”
  • Spanish: “Región de Piura”
  • Swahili: “Piura”
  • Swedish: “Piura”
  • Tajik: “Пиура”
  • Tamil: “பியூரா பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Пиура”
  • Telugu: “పియూరా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นปิวรา”
  • Turkish: “Piura bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Piura Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “П’юра”
  • Ukrainian: “Піура”
  • Ukrainian: “Регіон П’юра”
  • Urdu: “پیورا ریجن”
  • Urdu: “پیورا علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Piura”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Piura”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Piura”
  • Western Armenian: “Փյուրա տարածաշրջան”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیورا”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮乌拉地区”

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