Loreto
Alto Amazonas Province
Yurimaguas District

Yurimaguas

Yurimaguas is a city located in the Loreto Region of Peru. It serves as the capital of the Alto Amazonas Province and is situated in the northeastern part of the country.
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  • Type: City with 64,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Alto Amazonas, Loreto, Peru
  • Also known as: “Yurimahuas”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Moisés Benzaquén Rengifo Airport.

Aerodrome
is a public airport serving Yurimaguas, a town on the in the Loreto Region of . It is owned and operated by CORPAC S.A., a civil government agency.

Yurimaguas

Latitude
-5.8952° or 5° 53′ 43″ south
Longitude
-76.1047° or 76° 6′ 17″ west
Population
64,000
Elevation
143 metres (469 feet)
IATA airport code
YMS
United Nations Location Code
PE YMS
Open location code
67654V3W+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 271351213
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3690654
Wiki­data ID
Q117625
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Waray—“Yurimaguas” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Yurimaguas”
  • Aymara: “Yurimawas”
  • Catalan: “Yurimaguas”
  • Cebuano: “Yurimaguas (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Yurimaguas”
  • Chinese: “尤里馬瓜斯”
  • Chinese: “尤里马瓜斯”
  • Dutch: “Yurimaguas”
  • French: “Yurimaguas”
  • German: “Yurimaguas”
  • Italian: “Yurimaguas”
  • Japanese: “ユリマグアス”
  • Lithuanian: “Jurimagvasas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yurimaguas”
  • Persian: “یوریماگوآس”
  • Portuguese: “Yurimaguas”
  • Quechua: “Yurimawas”
  • Russian: “Юримагуас”
  • Spanish: “Yurimaguas”
  • Ukrainian: “Юрімагуас”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yurimaguas”

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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 “Yurimaguas”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.