Cuispes
Cuispes is a small village in Amazonas Department. Cuispes is 9 km up a steep, winding gravel road from the town of Pedro Ruiz. It is the main point of access for the 895-m Yumbilla waterfall and other large waterfalls nearby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Fregopie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 669 residents
- Description: district in Amazonas, Peru
- Also known as: “Cuispes District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yumbilla Falls.
Yumbilla Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Ozesama, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yumbilla Falls is a waterfall located near the town of Cuispes, in the northern Peruvian region of Amazonas. It is considered the world's fifth tallest waterfall, becoming internationally known since late 2007 due to a geographical survey conducted by the Geographical Institute of Peru.
Cuispes
- Category: district of Peru
- Location: Bongará Province, Amazonas, Northern Sierra, Peru, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aymara to Spanish—“Cuispes” goes by many names.
- Aymara: “Cuispes jisk’a t’aqa suyu”
- Cebuano: “Cuispes”
- Chinese: “崔斯佩斯區”
- Dutch: “Cuispes District”
- Georgian: “კისპესის რაიონი”
- German: “Distrikt Cuispes”
- Italian: “Distretto di Cuispes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cuispes”
- Norwegian: “Cuispes”
- Portuguese: “Cuispes”
- Quechua: “Cuispes distritu”
- Quechua: “Cuispes”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Cuispes”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Cuispes”. Photo: Fregopie, CC BY-SA 3.0.