Piru
Piru is a small unincorporated historic town located in eastern Ventura County, California, in the Santa Clara River Valley near the Santa Clara River and Highway 126, about seven miles east of Fillmore and about 13 miles west of Interstate 5. Lake Piru, in the Los Padres National Forest, is the main recreational attraction.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,060 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Ventura County, California
- Also known as: “Piru City”, “Piru Rancho”, “Piru, CA”, and “Piru, California”
- Postal code: 93040
Places of Interest
Highlights include Warring Park and Piru Mansion.
Warring Park
Park
Warring Park is a California Historical Landmark as it is the site that Portolà expedition found the Chumash people group known as the Piru Indian tribe August 11, 1769.
Rancho Camulos
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Rancho Camulos, now known as Rancho Camulos Museum, is a ranch located in the Santa Clara River Valley 2.2 miles east of Piru, California, and just north of the Santa Clara River, in Ventura County, California. Rancho Camulos is situated 2 miles east of Piru.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buckhorn and Santa Clara Valley.
Buckhorn
Hamlet
Buckhorn is a populated place name along State Route 126 in a rural unincorporated area of Ventura County, California, United States. Buckhorn is about 2 miles outside the town of Piru but is within the eponymous census-designated place. Buckhorn is situated 1½ miles southwest of Piru.
Santa Clara Valley
Photo: Chevy111, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Santa Clara Valley is a rural, mainly agricultural, valley in Ventura County. Santa Clara Valley was known as "the Valley of Heart's Delight" for its high concentration of orchards, flowering trees and plants.
Piru
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Ventura County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.41561° or 34° 24′ 56″ northLongitude
-118.79275° or 118° 47′ 34″ westPopulation
2,060Elevation
709 feet (216 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PIUOpen location code
8563C684+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 3769880982OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Volapük—“Piru” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Piru”
- Cebuano: “Piru”
- Chechen: “Пайру”
- Chinese: “Piru”
- Chinese: “皮魯”
- Croatian: “Piru”
- Dutch: “Piru”
- French: “Piru”
- German: “Piru”
- Gilaki: “پایرو”
- Irish: “Piru”
- Italian: “Piru”
- Japanese: “ピル”
- Ladin: “Piru”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Piru”
- Newari: “पिरु (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
- Newari: “पिरु, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “पिरु”
- Persian: “پیرو، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “پیرو”
- Polish: “Piru”
- Portuguese: “Piru”
- Serbian: “Piru, California”
- Serbian: “Piru”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Piru, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Piru”
- South Azerbaijani: “پیرو، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Piru, California”
- Spanish: “Piru”
- Tatar: “Пайру”
- Turkish: “Piru”
- Ukrainian: “Пайру”
- Volapük: “Piru”
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