Puno
Puno Province
Puno

Puno

Puno is a port city at an altitude of over 3,800 meters, on the shores of on the of - though because it's located within an enclosed bay, you won't see the full scale of the lake here unless visiting the outlying islands of Taquile and Amantaní.
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  • Type: City with 129,000 residents
  • Description: Capital city of Puno, Peru
  • Also known as: “Capital Folklore of Peru”, “City Puno”, “Folklore Peruvian”, and “San Carlos de Puno”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral Basilica of St. Charles Borromeo, Puno and Estadio E. Torres Belón.

Church
The Catedral Basílica San Carlos Borromeo or Puno Cathedral is a Catholic church in the city of Puno in south-eastern Peru. It is in the Andean Baroque architectural tradition, and is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Puno.

Stadium
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Estadio Enrique Torres Belón is a multi-purpose stadium in Puno, . It is currently used by football team Alfonso Ugarte. The stadium is built out of stone and has a capacity of 20,000 people.

Library
Photo: Txolo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a library.

Puno

Latitude
-15.8433° or 15° 50′ 36″ south
Longitude
-70.0236° or 70° 1′ 25″ west
Population
129,000
Elevation
3,792 metres (12,441 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PE PUN
Open location code
57PF5X4G+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 59043304
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3931276
Wiki­data ID
Q232842
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Puno” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Puno”
  • Arabic: “بونو”
  • Armenian: “Պունո”
  • Asturian: “Puno”
  • Aymara: “Puno”
  • Aymara: “Punu”
  • Basque: “Puno”
  • Belarusian: “Пуна (Перу)”
  • Belarusian: “Пуна”
  • Bengali: “পোনু”
  • Bulgarian: “Пуно”
  • Catalan: “Puno”
  • Catalan: “San Carlos de Puno”
  • Cebuano: “Puno (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Puno”
  • Chinese: “普诺”
  • Chinese: “普諾”
  • Chuvash: “Пуно”
  • Croatian: “Puno”
  • Czech: “Puno”
  • Danish: “Puno”
  • Dutch: “Puno”
  • Dutch: “San Carlos de Puno”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بونو”
  • Esperanto: “Punjo”
  • Esperanto: “Puno”
  • Estonian: “Puno”
  • Finnish: “Puno”
  • French: “Puno”
  • Galician: “Puno”
  • Georgian: “პუნო”
  • German: “Puno”
  • Greek: “Πούνο”
  • Gujarati: “પુનો”
  • Hindi: “पूनो”
  • Indonesian: “Puno”
  • Irish: “Puno”
  • Italian: “Puno”
  • Italian: “San Carlos de Puno”
  • Japanese: “プーノ”
  • Japanese: “プノ”
  • Kannada: “ಪುನೊ”
  • Korean: “푸노 시”
  • Korean: “푸노”
  • Latin: “Punum”
  • Latvian: “Puno”
  • Lithuanian: “Punas”
  • Macedonian: “Пуно”
  • Malay: “Puno”
  • Marathi: “पुणो”
  • Nauru: “Puno”
  • Northern Sami: “Punu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puno”
  • Norwegian: “Puno”
  • Persian: “پونو”
  • Polish: “Puno”
  • Portuguese: “Puno”
  • Quechua: “Puno”
  • Quechua: “Punu”
  • Romanian: “Puno”
  • Russian: “Пуно”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Puno”
  • Sinhala: “පූනෝ”
  • Slovenian: “Puno”
  • Spanish: “Capital del Folklore del Perú”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Puno”
  • Spanish: “Puno”
  • Spanish: “San Carlos de Puno”
  • Swedish: “Puno”
  • Tamil: “புனோ”
  • Tatar: “Пуно”
  • Telugu: “పునో”
  • Thai: “ปูโน”
  • Turkish: “Puno”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуно”
  • Urdu: “پونو”
  • Venetian: “Puno”
  • Vietnamese: “Puno”
  • Volapük: “Puno”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puno, Peru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puno”
  • Wu Chinese: “普诺”
  • “Puno”

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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 “Puno”. Photo: Antoniogargate, CC BY-SA 3.0.