Piura
Piura is the capital city of the region of Piura in northern Peru. 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.
Photo: Alfredobi, Public domain.
- Type: City with 473,000 residents
- Description: city of Peru, capital of Piura region
- Also known as: “Piruaurbo”, “Pirŭaurbo”, “Piŭra”, “Pjūra”, “Regiono Piura”, “San Miguel de Piura”, “San Miguel del Villar”, and “П’юра (горад)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Piura Cathedral and Estadio Miguel Grau.
Estadio Miguel Grau
Stadium
Piura
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Piura District, Piura Province, Piura, Northern Coast, Peru, South America
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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
UN/LOCODE
PE PIU
Open location code
666XQ9X8+XM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Piura” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Piura”
- Amharic: “ፒውራ”
- Arabic: “بيورا”
- Asturian: “Piura”
- Aymara: “Piwra”
- Azerbaijani: “Piura”
- Basque: “Piura”
- 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: “Pjuro”
- Finnish: “Piura”
- French: “Piura”
- Galician: “Piura”
- Georgian: “პიურა”
- German: “Piura”
- Greek: “Πιούρα”
- Guarani: “Piura”
- Gujarati: “પીયુરા”
- Hausa: “Piura”
- Hebrew: “פיורה”
- Hindi: “पिउरा”
- Hindi: “पियुरा”
- Hungarian: “Piura”
- Indonesian: “Piura”
- Irish: “Piura”
- Italian: “Piura”
- Japanese: “ピウラ”
- Javanese: “Piura”
- Kannada: “ಪಿಯುರಾ”
- Kazakh: “Пиура”
- Kirghiz: “Пиура”
- Korean: “피우라”
- Latin: “Piura”
- Latvian: “Pjura”
- Lithuanian: “Piura”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Piura”
- Panjabi: “ਪਿਉਰਾ”
- Persian: “پیورا”
- Polish: “Piura”
- Portuguese: “Piura”
- Portuguese: “Piúra”
- Pushto: “پیورا”
- Quechua: “Piwra”
- Romanian: “Piura”
- Russian: “Пиура”
- Russian: “Пьюра”
- Serbian: “Пијура”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Piura”
- Silesian: “Piura”
- Sinhala: “පියුරා, පේරු”
- Sinhala: “පියුරා”
- Slovak: “Piura”
- Slovenian: “Piura”
- Somali: “Piura”
- Spanish: “Piura”
- Swahili: “Piura”
- Swedish: “Piura”
- Tajik: “Пиура”
- Tamil: “பியூரா”
- Tatar: “Пиура”
- Tatar: “Пьюра”
- Telugu: “పియూర”
- Thai: “ปิวรา”
- Turkish: “Piura”
- Ukrainian: “П’юра”
- Ukrainian: “Піура”
- Urdu: “پیورا”
- Uzbek: “Piura”
- Venetian: “Piura”
- Vietnamese: “Piura”
- Volapük: “Piura”
- Waray (Philippines): “Piura”
- Wu Chinese: “皮乌拉”
- “Piura”
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