Borja
Borja is a settlement in the Datem del Marañón Province of the Loreto Region of Peru. The hamlet is located on the banks of the Marañón River at an elevation of 165 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 522 residents
- Description: human settlement in Peru
- Also known as: “Borja, Peru”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pongo de Manseriche.
Pongo de Manseriche
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The Pongo de Manseriche is a gorge in northwest Peru. The Marañón River runs through this gorge before it reaches the Amazon Basin. The Pongo de Manseriche is 3 miles long, located at 4° 27′ 30″ south latitude and 77° 34′ 51″ west longitude, just below the mouth of the Río Santiago, and between it and the old missionary station of Borja. Pongo de Manseriche is situated 3½ km west of Borja.
Borja
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Manseriche District, Datem del Marañón Province, Loreto, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-4.46966° or 4° 28′ 11″ southLongitude
-77.5462° or 77° 32′ 46″ westPopulation
522Elevation
159 metres (522 feet)Open location code
6774GFJ3+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 5363233344OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3699265Wikidata ID
Q4945551
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Borja” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Borja”
- Cebuano: “Borja”
- Dutch: “Borja”
- Irish: “Borja”
- Quechua: “Borja (Luritu)”
- Quechua: “Borja”
- Quechua: “Saramiriza”
- Slovenian: “Borja”
- Spanish: “Borja (Datem del Marañón)”
- Spanish: “Borja”
- Spanish: “San Francisco de Borja”
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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 “Borja”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.