Piura
Talara province
La Brea District

Punta Pariñas

Punta Pariñas, also known as Punta Balcones, is in the , Talara Province, Piura Region, . It is the westernmost point in mainland , located at.
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: cape; westernmost point of South America
  • Also known as: “Cabo Pariña”, “Pariñas”, “Pariñas Point”, “Pariñas Points”, “Punta Pariña”, and “Punta Parinas”

Punta Pariñas

Latitude
-4.67002° or 4° 40′ 12″ south
Longitude
-81.32744° or 81° 19′ 39″ west
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
667W8MHF+X2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5356806122
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
3693861
Wiki­data ID
Q1495331
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Punta Pariñas” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Parinyas burnu”
  • Belarusian: “Парыньяс”
  • Bulgarian: “Париняс”
  • Catalan: “punta Pariñas”
  • Cebuano: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Chinese: “帕里尼亚斯角”
  • Czech: “mys Pariñas”
  • Dutch: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Esperanto: “Punta Pariñas”
  • French: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Georgian: “პარინიასი”
  • German: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Hebrew: “פונטה פריניאס”
  • Japanese: “パリニャス岬”
  • Kabardian: “Париниас”
  • Kazakh: “Париньяс”
  • Kirghiz: “Париньяс”
  • Korean: “파리냐스곶”
  • Latvian: “Parinjasa rags”
  • Lithuanian: “Parinjaso kyšulys”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Norwegian: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Polish: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Portuguese: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Russian: “мыс Париньяс”
  • Russian: “Париньяс”
  • Serbian: “Пунта Паринас”
  • Serbian: “Пунта Парињас”
  • Spanish: “Punta Balcones”
  • Spanish: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Swedish: “Punta Pariñas”
  • Ukrainian: “Мис Париньяс”
  • Ukrainian: “Мис Паріньяс”

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Notable Places Nearby

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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 “Punta Pariñas”. Photo: Hookery, CC BY-SA 3.0.