Cajamarca Department
Jaén Province
Jaén District

Jaén

Jaén, founded as San Leandro de Jaén and then known as Jerez de la Frontera and finally as Jaén de Bracamoros since April 1549, is a city which is the capital of the Jaén Province in the Cajamarca Region in , located in the high jungle of northern Peru.
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  • Type: City with 80,600 residents
  • Description: capital city of Jaén, Peru
  • Also known as: “Jaén (Peru)”, “Jaén de Bracamoros”, and “Jaén, Peru”

Jaén

Latitude
-5.7086° or 5° 42′ 31″ south
Longitude
-78.8076° or 78° 48′ 27″ west
Population
80,600
Elevation
730 metres (2,395 feet)
IATA airport code
JAE
United Nations Location Code
PE JAE
Open location code
676375RR+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 278074020
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3696150
Wiki­data ID
Q1229885
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Jaén” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خاين، بيرو”
  • Arabic: “خاين”
  • Asturian: “Jaén”
  • Bengali: “হায়েন”
  • Cebuano: “Jaén”
  • Chinese: “哈恩”
  • Danish: “Jaen”
  • Dutch: “Jaén”
  • Finnish: “Jaén”
  • French: “Jaén de Bracamoros”
  • French: “Jaén”
  • German: “Jaén de Bracamoros”
  • German: “Jaén”
  • Greek: “Τζαέν”
  • Gujarati: “જૅન”
  • Indonesian: “Jaén”
  • Italian: “Jaén”
  • Japanese: “ハエン”
  • Kannada: “ಜೇನ್”
  • Latvian: “Hajena”
  • Lithuanian: “Chajenas”
  • Malay: “Jaen”
  • Marathi: “जाँ, पेरु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jaen”
  • Persian: “خاین”
  • Polish: “Jaén (miasto w Peru)”
  • Polish: “Jaén”
  • Portuguese: “Jaén (distrito)”
  • Portuguese: “Jaén”
  • Quechua: “Jaén (Piruw)”
  • Quechua: “Jaén”
  • Romanian: “Jaén, Peru”
  • Romanian: “Jaén”
  • Russian: “Хаэн”
  • Sinhala: “ජයින් ,පේරු”
  • Spanish: “Jaén (Perú)”
  • Spanish: “Jaen de Bracamoros”
  • Spanish: “Jaén de Bracamoros”
  • Spanish: “Jaen, Cajamarca”
  • Spanish: “Jaén, Cajamarca”
  • Spanish: “Jaen, Peru”
  • Spanish: “Jaén, Perú”
  • Spanish: “Jaen”
  • Spanish: “Jaén”
  • Swedish: “Jaén”
  • Tamil: “ஜெயின்”
  • Telugu: “జాయెన్”
  • Thai: “ฆาเอน”
  • Turkish: “Jaén”
  • Ukrainian: “Хаен”
  • Urdu: “جاین، پیرو”
  • Urdu: “جاین”
  • Vietnamese: “Jaen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jaén, Peru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jaén”

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