Pucallpa
Pucallpa is a city in the Peruvian Amazon on the banks of the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon River. It's an excellent base for visits to Lake Yarinacocha.
- Type: City with 326,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Ucayali, Peru
- Also known as: “Callaria”, “Pucallpa Peru”, “Puka Allpa”, “Pukahallpa”, “Pukajpa”, “Pulcalla”, “ปูกัลย์ปา”, and “ปูกาอัลย์ปา”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Pucallpa and Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Fernando.
Pucallpa
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Callería District, Province of Coronel Portillo, Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-8.3821° or 8° 22′ 56″ south
Longitude
-74.5388° or 74° 32′ 20″ west
Population
326,000
Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)
IATA airport code
PCL
UN/LOCODE
PE PCL
Open location code
6737JF96+5F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Pucallpa” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Pucallpa”
- Amharic: “ፑካልፓ”
- Arabic: “بوكالبا”
- Asturian: “Pucallpa”
- Aymara: “Pukallpa”
- Azerbaijani: “Pucallpa”
- Basque: “Pucallpa”
- Belarusian: “Пукальпа”
- Bengali: “পুকাল্পা”
- Bengali: “পুকাল্লাপা”
- Catalan: “Pucallpa”
- Cebuano: “Pucallpa (kapital sa rehiyon sa Peru)”
- Cebuano: “Pucallpa”
- Chinese: “普兰尔帕”
- Chinese: “普卡尔帕”
- Chinese: “普蘭爾帕”
- Czech: “Pucallpa”
- Danish: “Pucallpa”
- Dutch: “Pucallpa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوكالبا”
- Esperanto: “Pucallpa”
- Finnish: “Pucallpa”
- French: “Pucallpa”
- Galician: “Pucallpa”
- Georgian: “პუკალიპა”
- German: “Pucallpa”
- Greek: “Πουκάλπα”
- Gujarati: “પુકલ્લપા”
- Hausa: “Pucallpa”
- Hindi: “पुकल्पा”
- Hindi: “पुकाल्पा”
- Hungarian: “Pucallpa”
- Indonesian: “Pucallpa”
- Interlingua: “Pucallpa”
- Irish: “Pucallpa”
- Italian: “Pucallpa”
- Japanese: “プカルバ”
- Javanese: “Pucallpa”
- Kannada: “ಪುಕಾಲ್ಪಾ”
- Kazakh: “Пукалпа”
- Kirghiz: “Пукалпа”
- Korean: “푸카이파”
- Korean: “푸칼파”
- Latin: “Pucalpa”
- Latvian: “Pukalpa”
- Lithuanian: “Pukaljpa”
- Lithuanian: “Pukalpa”
- Luxembourgish: “Pucallpa”
- Macedonian: “Пукалпа”
- Malay: “Pucallpa”
- Marathi: “पुसाल्लपा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pucallpa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pucallpa”
- Norwegian: “Pucallpa”
- Oromo: “Pucallpa”
- Ossetian: “Пукальпæ”
- Panjabi: “ਪੁਕਾਲਪਾ”
- Persian: “پوکایپا”
- Polish: “Pucallpa”
- Portuguese: “Pucallpa”
- Pushto: “پوکالپا”
- Quechua: “Pukallpa”
- Romanian: “Pucallpa”
- Russian: “Пукальпа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pucallpa”
- Silesian: “Pucallpa”
- Sinhala: “පුකල්පා, පේරු”
- Sinhala: “පුකල්පා”
- Slovak: “Pucallpa”
- Slovenian: “Pucallpa”
- Somali: “Pucallpa”
- Spanish: “Pucallpa”
- Swahili: “Pucallpa”
- Swedish: “Pucallpa”
- Tajik: “Пукалпа”
- Tamil: “புக்கால்பா”
- Tatar: “Пукалпа”
- Tatar: “Пукальпа”
- Telugu: “పుకాల్ప”
- Thai: “ปูกัลปา”
- Thai: “ปูไกปา”
- Turkish: “Pucallpa”
- Ukrainian: “Пукальпа”
- Urdu: “پوکاایپا”
- Uzbek: “Pucallpa”
- Venetian: “Pucallpa”
- Vietnamese: “Pucallpa”
- Volapük: “Pucallpa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pucallpa”
- Wu Chinese: “普卡尔帕”
- “Pucallpa”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Abancay and Centro Urbano de Pucallpa.
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