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Place in Peru
Piura
San Miguel de Piura
Top:Saint Michael the Archangel Cathedral, Second:Piura University, Piura Miguel Grau Stadium, Third:Piura Almas Square, A street for Hotel Tacna, Bottom:Piura River and Barrio Norte area's panoramic view (all item of left to right)
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La Primera Ciudad (The First City) La Ciudad del Eterno Calor (The City of The Eternal Heat)
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[2] and the Piura Province. Its population was 484,475 as of 2017 and is the 7th most populous city in Peru. The city is located in the central eastern part of the Piura Region, 981 kilometers from the countrys capital, Lima and is near to the border with Ecuador.
It was here that Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro founded the third Spanish city in South America and first in Peru, under the name of San Miguel de Piura, in July[3]: 27 or August[4] of 1532. Piura declared its independence from Spain on 4 January 1821, a few months before Peru gained its independence on 28 July, 1821.[5] It is the commercial and administrative center of the Department of Piura.
^Perú: Población estimada al 30 de junio y tasa de crecimiento de las ciudades capitales, por departamento, 2011 y 2015. Perú: Estimaciones y proyecciones de población total por sexo de las principales ciudades, 2012-2015 (Report). Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. March 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
^"Departamento de Piura", travelsradiate.com, accessed 25 March 2011.
^Hemming, J., 1970, The Conquest of the Incas, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., ISBN 0151225605
^"Historia de Piura".
^Box, Ben (2004). The South American Handbook (80 ed.). Footprint Travel Guides. p. 1132. ISBN 978-1-903471-70-8.
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