South America
Colombia
Risaralda Department

Pereira

Pereira is the capital city of the department of Risaralda in 's . It is in the center of the western region of the country, located in a small valley that descends from a part of the western Andes mountain chain.
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  • Type: City with 477,000 residents
  • Description: city and capital of Risaralda department, Colombia
  • Also known as: “Pereira, Colombia”
  • Historically known as: “Antigua Cartago”, “Cartago Viejo”, and “Villa de Robledo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Our Lady of Poverty and Naked Bolívar.

Cathedral
Photo: Baiji, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral, also called Pereira Cathedral, is the cathedral church of Catholic worship in the city of Pereira, capital of Risaralda department in the South American country of .

Memorial
Photo: Baiji, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dosquebradas.

Town
Photo: Jamolinao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the second largest city and a municipality in the , . As of 2023, with a population of approximately 225,540 inhabitants.

Pereira

Latitude
4.8143° or 4° 48′ 52″ north
Longitude
-75.6947° or 75° 41′ 41″ west
Population
477,000
Elevation
1,445 metres (4,741 feet)
IATA airport code
PEI
United Nations Location Codes
CO CRC and CO PEI
Open location code
67P6R874+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8448168093
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3672486
Wiki­data ID
Q51111
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Pereira” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pereira (Kolombië)”
  • Afrikaans: “Pereira”
  • Arabic: “بيريرا”
  • Armenian: “Պերեյրա”
  • Asturian: “Pereira (Colombia)”
  • Asturian: “Pereira”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pereyra”
  • Basque: “Pereira”
  • Belarusian: “Перэйра”
  • Bengali: “পেরেইরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Перейра”
  • Catalan: “Pereira”
  • Cebuano: “Pereira (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Pereira”
  • Chinese: “Pereira”
  • Chinese: “佩雷拉”
  • Czech: “Pereira”
  • Danish: “Pereira”
  • Dutch: “Pereira”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيريرا”
  • Esperanto: “Pereira”
  • Finnish: “Pereira”
  • French: “Pereira”
  • Galician: “Pereira, Colombia”
  • Galician: “Pereira”
  • Georgian: “პერეირა”
  • German: “Pereira”
  • Greek: “Περέιρα”
  • Gujarati: “પરેરા”
  • Haitian: “Pereira (Kolonbi)”
  • Haitian: “Pereira”
  • Hebrew: “פריירה”
  • Hindi: “परेरा”
  • Hungarian: “Pereira”
  • Indonesian: “Pereira, Kolombia”
  • Indonesian: “Pereira”
  • Irish: “Pereira”
  • Italian: “Pereira”
  • Japanese: “ペレイラ (コロンビア)”
  • Japanese: “ペレイラ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆರೆರಾ”
  • Korean: “페레이라”
  • Kotava: “Pereira”
  • Latvian: “Pereira”
  • Lithuanian: “Pereira”
  • Malay: “Pereira, Colombia”
  • Malay: “Pereira”
  • Marathi: “परेरा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pereira”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pereira (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pereira”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pereira”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pereira”
  • Norwegian: “Pereira”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pereira”
  • Ossetian: “Перейрæ (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Перейрæ”
  • Persian: “پریرا”
  • Polish: “Pereira”
  • Portuguese: “Pereira”
  • Quechua: “Pereira”
  • Romanian: “Pereira”
  • Russian: “Переира”
  • Russian: “Перейра”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pereira”
  • Serbian: “Переира, Колумбија”
  • Serbian: “Переира”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pereira, Kolumbija”
  • Silesian: “Pereira”
  • Sinhala: “පෙරෙයිරා, කොලොම්බියාව”
  • Sinhala: “පෙරෙයිරා”
  • Slovak: “Pereira”
  • Slovenian: “Pereira”
  • Spanish: “Pereira”
  • Swedish: “Pereira”
  • Tagalog: “Pereira, Colombia”
  • Tagalog: “Pereira”
  • Tamil: “பேரெய்ரா”
  • Tatar: “Перейра (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Перейра”
  • Telugu: “పెరార”
  • Thai: “เปเรย์รา”
  • Turkish: “Pereira (belediye)”
  • Turkish: “Pereira belediyesi”
  • Turkish: “Pereira, Kolombiya”
  • Turkish: “Pereira”
  • Ukrainian: “Перейра”
  • Urdu: “پریرا، کولمبیا”
  • Venetian: “Pereira”
  • Veps: “Pereir”
  • Vietnamese: “Pereira, Colombia”
  • Vietnamese: “Pereira”
  • Volapük: “Pereira”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pereira, Colombia”
  • Welsh: “Pereira”
  • Western Frisian: “Pereira (Kolombia)”
  • Western Frisian: “Pereira”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیریئرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “佩雷拉”
  • “Pereira”

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