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 Apostolic Vicariate of Pucallpa and Judicial District of Ucayali.

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

Courthouse
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:…

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San Fernando.

Town
is a town.

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
  • Arabic: بوكالبا
  • Asturian: Pucallpa
  • Aymara: Pukallpa
  • Basque: Pucallpa
  • Belarusian: Пукальпа
  • 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
  • Hindi: पुकाल्पा
  • Hungarian: Pucallpa
  • Indonesian: Pucallpa
  • Interlingua: Pucallpa
  • Irish: Pucallpa
  • Italian: Pucallpa
  • Japanese: プカルバ
  • Kannada: ಪುಕಾಲ್ಪಾ
  • 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
  • Ossetian: Пукальпæ
  • Ossetian: Пукальпа
  • Persian: پوکایپا
  • Polish: Pucallpa
  • Portuguese: Pucallpa
  • 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
  • Spanish: Pucallpa Peru
  • Spanish: Pucallpa
  • Spanish: Pucalpa
  • Swedish: Pucallpa
  • Tamil: புக்கால்பா
  • Tatar: Пукальпа
  • Telugu: పుకాల్ప
  • Thai: ปูกัลปา
  • Thai: ปูกัลย์ปา
  • Thai: ปูกาอัลย์ปา
  • Thai: ปูไกปา
  • Turkish: Pucallpa
  • Ukrainian: Пукальпа
  • Urdu: پوکاایپا
  • Venetian: Pucallpa
  • Vietnamese: Pucallpa
  • Volapük: Pucallpa
  • Waray (Philippines): Pucallpa
  • Wu Chinese: 普卡尔帕
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