Piura
Piura Province
Piura District

Piura

Piura is the capital city of the region of Piura in northern . It's a bit bustly and not overly beautiful, yet still has an attractive air, and is a great place to gobble down some tasty Peruvian cuisine.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Piura Cathedral and Estadio Miguel Grau.

Church
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The St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral, also called , is a religious building affiliated to the Catholic Church that is located in the city of Piura, .

Stadium
Photo: Carlos Pozo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a multi-use in Piura, , built in 1958. It is currently used by football team Atlético Grau. Throughout the years the stadium has undergone many renovations, most recently for the Copa America 2004.

Aerodrome
Photo: Nilsf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
PAF Captain Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport is an airport serving Piura, . It is 2 kilometres from Piura's main square and 130 kilometres from the resort of .

Piura

Latitude
-5.2° or 5° 12′ south
Longitude
-80.6333° or 80° 38′ west
Population
473,000
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
IATA airport code
PIU
United Nations Location Code
PE PIU
Open location code
666XQ9X8+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 272379571
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3693528
Wiki­data ID
Q223966
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Piura” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Piura”
  • Arabic: “بيورا”
  • Asturian: “Piura”
  • Aymara: “Piwra”
  • Azerbaijani: “Piura”
  • Basque: “Piura”
  • Belarusian: “П’юра (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “П’юра”
  • Belarusian: “Пюра”
  • Bengali: “পিউরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиура”
  • Catalan: “Piura”
  • Cebuano: “Piura (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Piura”
  • Chinese: “皮乌拉”
  • Chinese: “皮烏拉”
  • Chuvash: “Пьюра”
  • Czech: “Piura”
  • Danish: “Piura”
  • Dutch: “Piura”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيورا”
  • Esperanto: “Piruaurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Pirŭaurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Piura”
  • Esperanto: “Piŭra”
  • Esperanto: “Pjuro”
  • Esperanto: “Regiono Piura”
  • Finnish: “Piura”
  • French: “Piura”
  • Galician: “Piura”
  • Georgian: “პიურა”
  • German: “Piura”
  • German: “San Miguel de Piura”
  • Greek: “Πιούρα”
  • Guarani: “Piura”
  • Gujarati: “પીયુરા”
  • Hebrew: “פיורה”
  • Hindi: “पिउरा”
  • Hungarian: “Piura”
  • Indonesian: “Piura”
  • Irish: “Piura”
  • Italian: “Piura”
  • Japanese: “ピウラ”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಯುರಾ”
  • Korean: “피우라”
  • Latin: “Piura”
  • Latvian: “Pjura”
  • Lithuanian: “Piura”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjura”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjūra”
  • Low German: “Piura (Stadt)”
  • Low German: “Piura”
  • Macedonian: “Пиура”
  • Malagasy: “Piura”
  • Malay: “Piura”
  • Marathi: “पिउरा”
  • Nauru: “Piura”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Piura”
  • Norwegian: “Piura”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Piura”
  • Persian: “پیورا”
  • Polish: “Piura”
  • Portuguese: “Piura”
  • Portuguese: “Piúra”
  • Quechua: “Piura”
  • Quechua: “Piwra”
  • Romanian: “Piura”
  • Russian: “Пиура”
  • Russian: “Пьюра”
  • Serbian: “Пијура”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Piura”
  • Silesian: “Piura”
  • Sinhala: “පියුරා, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “පියුරා”
  • Slovak: “Piura”
  • Slovenian: “Piura”
  • Spanish: “Piura”
  • Spanish: “San Miguel de Piura”
  • Spanish: “San Miguel del Villar”
  • Swedish: “Piura”
  • Tamil: “பியூரா”
  • Tatar: “Пьюра”
  • Telugu: “పియూర”
  • Thai: “ปิวรา”
  • Turkish: “Piura”
  • Ukrainian: “П’юра”
  • Ukrainian: “Піура”
  • Urdu: “پیورا”
  • Venetian: “Piura”
  • Vietnamese: “Piura”
  • Volapük: “Piura”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Piura”
  • Wu Chinese: “皮乌拉”
  • “Piura”

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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 “Piura”. Photo: Pitxiquin, CC BY-SA 4.0.