Puquio
Puquio is a town in Central Peru, South America. It is the capital of the province Lucanas in the region Ayacucho.- Type: Town with 12,500 residents
- Description: town in Ayacucho, Peru
- Also known as: “Puqure”
Puquio
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Puquio District, Lucanas Province, Ayacucho, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-14.69401° or 14° 41′ 38″ south
Longitude
-74.12422° or 74° 7′ 27″ west
Population
12,500
Elevation
3,195 metres (10,482 feet)
Open location code
57Q78V4G+98
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Puquio” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوكويو”
- Asturian: “Puquio”
- Aymara: “Pukyu”
- Cebuano: “Puquio (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Puquio”
- Chinese: “普基奥”
- Chinese: “普基奧”
- Dutch: “Puquio”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوكويو”
- French: “Puquio”
- Italian: “Puquio”
- Lithuanian: “Pukijas”
- Persian: “پوکیو”
- Polish: “Puquio”
- Portuguese: “Puquio”
- Quechua: “Pukyu llaqta”
- Slovenian: “Puquio”
- Spanish: “Puquio”
- Waray (Philippines): “Puquio”
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