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Peru

Loreto

Loreto is 's northernmost department and region. Covering almost one-third of Peru's territory, Loreto is by far the nation's largest department, slightly smaller than or ; it is also one of the most sparsely populated regions due to its remote location in the Amazon Rainforest.
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  • Type: department of Peru with 1,030,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Department of Loreto”, “LOR”, “Loreto department”, “Loreto Department”, “Loreto Region”, and “PE-LOR”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Loreto

Latitude
-4° or 4° south
Longitude
-74.5° or 74° 30′ west
Population
1,030,000
Elevation
125 metres (410 feet)
Open location code
67872G22+22
Geo­Names ID
3695238
Wiki­data ID
Q200938
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Loreto” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إقليم لوريتو”
  • Arabic: “لوريتو”
  • Armenian: “Լորետո”
  • Asturian: “Loreto (Perú)”
  • Asturian: “Loreto”
  • Aymara: “Luritu jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Luritu Jach’a Suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Loreto departamenti”
  • Basque: “Loreto departamendua”
  • Belarusian: “Ларэта”
  • Belarusian: “Лярэта”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Ларэта”
  • Bengali: “লরেতো অঞ্চল”
  • Breton: “Rannvro Loreto”
  • Bulgarian: “Лорето”
  • Catalan: “Departament de Loreto”
  • Catalan: “Departamento de Loreto”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Loreto”
  • Cebuano: “Loreto”
  • Chinese: “Loreto Khu”
  • Chinese: “洛雷托大区”
  • Chinese: “洛雷託大區”
  • Czech: “Loreto”
  • Danish: “Loreto”
  • Dutch: “Loreto”
  • Esperanto: “Departamento Loreto”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento de Loreto”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Loreto”
  • Esperanto: “Loreto”
  • Estonian: “Loreto piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Loreton alue”
  • French: “Département de Loreto”
  • French: “Loreto”
  • French: “Région de Loreto”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Loreto”
  • Galician: “Loreto”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Loreto”
  • Georgian: “ლორეტო”
  • Georgian: “ლორეტოს რეგიონი”
  • German: “Departement Loreto”
  • German: “Loreto”
  • German: “Region Loreto”
  • Greek: “Λορέτο”
  • Gujarati: “લોરેટો પ્રદેશ”
  • Hindi: “लोरेटो क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Loreto megye”
  • Indonesian: “Departamento Loreto”
  • Indonesian: “Loreto Region”
  • Indonesian: “Loreto”
  • Indonesian: “Region Loreto”
  • Indonesian: “Región Loreto”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Loreto”
  • Italian: “Loreto”
  • Italian: “regione di Loreto”
  • Italian: “Regione di Loreto”
  • Japanese: “ロレート県”
  • Japanese: “ロレト県”
  • Kannada: “ಲೊರೆಟೋ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Korean: “로레토주”
  • Ladino: “Loreto”
  • Latin: “Loretum Regio”
  • Latin: “Regio Laureti”
  • Latvian: “Loreto departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Loreto departamentas”
  • Lithuanian: “Loreto regionas”
  • Macedonian: “Лорето”
  • Malay: “Negeri Loreto”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Loreto”
  • Marathi: “लोरेरे प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Loreto Khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Loreto-regionen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Loreto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loreto-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Loreto”
  • Ossetian: “Лорето (департамент)”
  • Ossetian: “Лорето”
  • Persian: “منطقه لورتو”
  • Polish: “Region Loreto”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de loreto”
  • Portuguese: “Loreto”
  • Quechua: “Loreto suyu”
  • Quechua: “Luritu suyu”
  • Quechua: “Luritu Suyu”
  • Romanian: “Loreto”
  • Russian: “Лорето”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Loreto (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Loreto”
  • Sinhala: “ලොරෙටෝ කලාපය”
  • Sinhala: “ලොරෙටෝ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento de Loreto”
  • Slovenian: “Departma Loreto”
  • Slovenian: “PE-LOR”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Loreto”
  • Spanish: “Loreto”
  • Spanish: “PE-LOR”
  • Spanish: “Región de Loreto”
  • Spanish: “Región Loreto”
  • Swedish: “Loreto”
  • Tamil: “லொரேட்டோ பகுதி”
  • Telugu: “లోరెటో ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “Loreto Region”
  • Thai: “แคว้นโลเรโต”
  • Turkish: “Loreto Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Лорето”
  • Urdu: “لوریتو ریجن”
  • Urdu: “لوریتو علاقہ”
  • Venetian: “Rejon de Łoreto”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Loreto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Loreto”
  • Western Armenian: “Լորեթթօ տարածաշրջան”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوریٹو”
  • Wu Chinese: “洛雷托大区”
  • “Loreto”

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