Bagua Grande
Bagua Grande is a town in the Amazonas region in northern Peru. It is capital of Utcubamba Province, and of Bagua Grande District. Bagua Grande has an estimated 42,396 inhabitants, having changed from a rural to an urban area after experiencing much immigration in the 1960s.- Type: Town with 32,500 residents
- Description: city in Amazonas, Peru
- Also known as: “Corazón de Amazonas”, “Hatun Bawa”, and “Pueblo Viejo”
Bagua Grande
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Bagua Grande District, Utcubamba Province, Amazonas, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-5.75422° or 5° 45′ 15″ south
Longitude
-78.44217° or 78° 26′ 32″ west
Population
32,500
Elevation
450 metres (1,476 feet)
Open location code
67636HW5+84
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Waray—“Bagua Grande” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Bagua Grande”
- Asturian: “Bagua Grande”
- Aymara: “Bagua Grande”
- Catalan: “Bagua Grande”
- Cebuano: “Bagua Grande (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Bagua Grande”
- Chinese: “大巴瓜”
- Danish: “Bagua Grande”
- Dutch: “Bagua Grande”
- French: “Bagua Grande”
- Galician: “Bagua Grande”
- German: “Bagua Grande”
- Italian: “Bagua Grande”
- Lithuanian: “Bagva Grandė”
- Moksha: “Багуа Грандэ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bagua Grande”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bagua Grande”
- Persian: “باگوآ گرانده”
- Polish: “Bagua Grande”
- Portuguese: “Bagua Grande”
- Quechua: “Utkupampa”
- Romanian: “Bagua Grande”
- Serbian: “Bagva Grande”
- Serbian: “Багва Гранде”
- Spanish: “Bagua Grande”
- Swedish: “Bagua Grande”
- Ukrainian: “Баґуа Ґранде”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bagua Grande”
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Places to explore: Cajaruro and Morerilla Alta.
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Highlights: Parque 28 de Julio and Municipalidad Provincial de Utcubamba.
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