Pucallpa

Pucallpa is a city in the on the banks of the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon River. It's an excellent base for visits to Lake Yarinacocha.
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  • Type: City with 326,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Ucayali, Peru
  • Also known as: “Callaria” and “Pulcalla”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Pucallpa and Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa.

Garden
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The Immaculate Conception Cathedral is the most important Catholic church in the in . The cathedral was inaugurated on December 8, 2005.

Church
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The is a Latin Church Apostolic vicariate of the in . It is immediately exempt to the Holy See and not part of any ecclesiastical province.

Courthouse
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In , a judicial district is a territorial unit for the administration of justice, composed of a number of districts within the same province. They are subdivisions of the Judicial System of Peru, with 34 in total. Judicial Districts in Peru:…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Fernando.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Pucallpa

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
United Nations Location Code
PE PCL
Open location code
6737JF96+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2875442305
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3693345
Wiki­data ID
Q217071
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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”
  • Czech: “Pukajpa”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Пукальпа”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੁਕਾਲਪਾ”
  • Persian: “پوکایپا”
  • Polish: “Pucallpa”
  • Portuguese: “Pucallpa”
  • Pushto: “پوکالپا”
  • Quechua: “Pucallpa”
  • Quechua: “Puka Allpa”
  • Quechua: “Pukahallpa”
  • Quechua: “Pukallpa”
  • Romanian: “Pucallpa”
  • Russian: “Пукальпа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pucallpa”
  • Silesian: “Pucallpa”
  • Sinhala: “පුකල්පා, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “පුකල්පා”
  • Slovak: “Pucallpa”
  • Slovenian: “Pucallpa”
  • Somali: “Pucallpa”
  • Spanish: “Pucallpa Peru”
  • Spanish: “Pucallpa”
  • Spanish: “Pucalpa”
  • Swahili: “Pucallpa”
  • Swedish: “Pucallpa”
  • Tajik: “Пукалпа”
  • Tamil: “புக்கால்பா”
  • Tatar: “Пукалпа”
  • Tatar: “Пукальпа”
  • Telugu: “పుకాల్ప”
  • Thai: “ปูกัลปา”
  • Thai: “ปูกัลย์ปา”
  • Thai: “ปูกาอัลย์ปา”
  • 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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