Punta Pariñas
Punta Pariñas, also known as Punta Balcones, is in the La Brea District, Talara Province, Piura Region, Peru. It is the westernmost point in mainland South America, located at.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hookery, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: La Brea District, Talara province, Piura, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-4.67002° or 4° 40′ 12″ southLongitude
-81.32744° or 81° 19′ 39″ westElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
667W8MHF+X2OpenStreetMap ID
node 5356806122OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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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”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Balcones and Sección 18.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Punta Pariñas Lighthouse and Laguna de las parihuanas.
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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.