Piura (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈpjuɾa]) is a coastal department and region in northwestern Peru. The region's capital is Piura and its largest port cities, Paita and Talara, are also among the most important in Peru. The area is known for its tropical and dry beaches. It is the most populous department in Peru, its twelfth smallest department, and its fourth-most densely populated department, after Tumbes, La Libertad, and Lambayeque.
The country's latest decentralization program is in hiatus after the proposal to merge departments was defeated in the national referendum in October 2005.[1] The referendum held on October 30, 2005, as part of the ongoing decentralization process in Peru, to decide whether the region would merge with the current regions of Lambayeque and Tumbes to create a new Región Norte was defeated.
^US State department at www.state.gov July 2007 "Background Note: Peru"
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Piura (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpjuɾa]) is a coastal department and region in northwestern Peru. The region's capital is Piura and its largest port cities...
Piura is a city in northwestern Peru located north of the Sechura Desert on the Piura River. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province...
river valleys produce half of the sugar cane crop of Peru. In addition, Lambayeque and the departmentofPiura provide most of the rice crops consumed in...
cities in the DepartmentofPiura. Sullana is located at 04°53' south latitude and 80°41' west longitude, 38 km north ofPiura, the capital of the region...
smallest department in Peru, but it is also its second-most populous department after Piura and its second-most densely populated department after Lambayeque...
the resort of Máncora. It is the main airport of the departmentofPiura, the second most populous of Peru's regions. The airport is run by Aeropuertos del...
University ofPiura (Spanish: Universidad de Piura; "UDEP") is a private university in Peru. It has two campuses, the main one is in Piura, while a more...
Current. The Illescas Peninsula is located in the departmentofPiura, and is scarcely inhabited. Part of Illescas was declared a reserved zone. Illescas...
Australia. In April the first detection in Peru occurred, in the DepartmentofPiura, and on the 11th the National Service for Agricultural Health declared...
occurs in the DepartmentofPiura in northern Peru and the adjacent Loja Province of southern Ecuador. The scientific name combines the names of these two...
Tumbes Region is bordered by the Ecuadorian provinces of El Oro and Loja on the east; Peru's Piura Region on the south; and by the Pacific Ocean on the...
The Piura mangroves ecoregion (WWF ID:NT1429) covers a very small (129 km2) mangrove site on the Piura River Delta, on the Pacific Ocean in northwestern...
Government ofPiura (Spanish: Gobierno Regional de Piura; GORE Piura) is the regional government that represents the DepartmentofPiura. It is the body...
Callao Loreto Madre de Dios Moquegua Pasco Piura Puno Tacna Tumbes San Martín Ucayali According to the Organic Law of Regional Governments, the regions (Spanish:...
mountain ridge within the Huancabamba Depression) in the DepartmentofPiura, Peru. Common name Piura water frog has been coined for it. Males can grow to...
located in the DepartmentofPiura ($1.5 billion to produce copper by 2008), Perú Copper Inc.’s Toromocho deposit located in the Departmentof Junin ($1.5-$2...
type locality in northwestern Peru's DepartmentofPiura. The nominate R. v. vesper is found from just south of there through Peru into Chile's Tarapacá...
hero of the naval battle of Angamos during the War of the Pacific (1879–1884). He was known as el Caballero de los Mares (Spanish for "Gentleman of the...
northern Peru's DepartmentofPiura C. i. aurora, central and eastern Cajamarca Department in northwestern Peru C. i. flagrans, the western slope of the western...
The Departmentof Trujillo (Spanish: Departamento de Trujillo) was a short-lived departmentof the Protectorate of Peru that existed from 1821 to 1825...
the DepartmentofPiura south to the Departmentof Lima and also inland Peru from the departmentsof Cajamarca and Amazonas south to the Departmentof Huánuco...
frog, is a species of frog in the family Strabomantidae. It is found in northern Peru (Cordillera de Huancabamba, DepartmentofPiura) and southern Ecuador...
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