South America
Peru

Piura

Piura is a coastal department and region in northwestern . The region's capital is and its largest port cities, and , are also among the most important in Peru.
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  • Type: State with 1,680,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Department of Piura”, “Piura Department”, “Piura region”, and “Piura, Peru”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tambogrande and Angostura.

Town
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is a small town in the Piura Province of the Piura Region in northwestern . One of many small towns chosen as a site for mining development during Peru's mining boom in 1999, achieved prominence for successfully opposing the Manhattan Minerals mining development in the area.

Village
is a small village in Sullana Province, Piura Region, on the northwestern coastal plains of . It is approximately halfway between the towns of and in the Loma Blanca hills between the and the Piura River.

Piura

Latitude
-5° or 5° south
Longitude
-80.3333° or 80° 20′ west
Population
1,680,000
Elevation
119 metres (390 feet)
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 Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Piura” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم بيورا”
  • Aymara: “Piura Jach’a Suyu”
  • Aymara: “Piwra jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Piwra jacha suyu”
  • 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: “Piura Khu”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Hindi: “पिउरा प्रदेश”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಯುರಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “پیورا”
  • Persian: “منطقه پیورا”
  • Polish: “Region Piura”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Piúra”
  • Portuguese: “Piura”
  • Portuguese: “Piúra”
  • 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”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Piura”
  • Spanish: “Piura”
  • Spanish: “Región de Piura”
  • Swedish: “Piura”
  • Tamil: “பியூரா பகுதி”
  • 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”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Piura”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Piura”
  • Western Armenian: “Փյուրա տարածաշրջան”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیورا”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮乌拉地区”
  • “Piura”

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