Cajamarca Department
Chota Province
Chota District

Chota

Chota is a city of 47,000 people. It is the capital of Chota province in the Department of Cajamarca. It is considered the Bullfighting Capital of Northern Peru.
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  • Type: Town with 14,200 residents
  • Description: capital city of Chota, Cajamarca, Peru
  • Also known as: “Chota, Peru”

Chota

Latitude
-6.5615° or 6° 33′ 41″ south
Longitude
-78.651° or 78° 39′ 3″ west
Population
14,200
Elevation
2,390 metres (7,841 feet)
Open location code
6753C8QX+CJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 290011452
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3698141
Wiki­data ID
Q2964558
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Chota” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Chota”
  • Catalan: “Chota”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Chota”
  • Cebuano: “Chota (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Chota”
  • Chinese: “喬塔”
  • Danish: “Chota”
  • Dutch: “Chota”
  • French: “Chota”
  • Persian: “چوتا”
  • Portuguese: “Chota”
  • Quechua: “Chuta”
  • Russian: “Чота”
  • Spanish: “Chota (ciudad)”
  • Spanish: “Chota”
  • Ukrainian: “Чота (місто)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chota, Peru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chota”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Chota”. Photo: Llatasandy, CC BY-SA 4.0.