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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...
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    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...
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    river valleys produce half of the sugar cane crop of Peru. In addition, Lambayeque and the department of Piura provide most of the rice crops consumed in...
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    smallest department in Peru, but it is also its second-most populous department after Piura and its second-most densely populated department after Lambayeque...
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    city of Piura. The club was founded in 1919 and currently plays in the Peruvian Primera División, the top tier of Peruvian football. It is among one of the...
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  • rights of selection for Miss World. The current Miss Peru is Tatiana Calmell, who represented the town/province of Talara in the department of Piura, and...
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    Sullana (redirect from History of Sullana)
    cities in the Department of Piura. Sullana is located at 04°53' south latitude and 80°41' west longitude, 38 km north of Piura, the capital of the region...
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    the resort of Máncora. It is the main airport of the department of Piura, the second most populous of Peru's regions. The airport is run by Aeropuertos del...
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    University of Piura (Spanish: Universidad de Piura; "UDEP") is a private university in Peru. It has two campuses, the main one is in Piura, while a more...
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    Illescas Peninsula (category Landforms of Piura Region)
    Current. The Illescas Peninsula is located in the department of Piura, and is scarcely inhabited. Part of Illescas was declared a reserved zone. Illescas...
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    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...
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    clubs in the Piura Department. They are one of the only Peruvian top-tier clubs not based in a state capital. Alianza Atlético were champions of the 2020...
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    by the province of Jaen; on the west by the Department of Piura. It is known as the land of coffee, honey and natural forests. Its population by economic...
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    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...
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    Australia. In April the first detection in Peru occurred, in the Department of Piura, and on the 11th the National Service for Agricultural Health declared...
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  • Government of Piura (Spanish: Gobierno Regional de Piura; GORE Piura) is the regional government that represents the Department of Piura. It is the body...
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    Piura, Plaza Grau and metro station in Lima. An example includes the modern-style monument in Piura, remodeled in 2019 featuring symbolic elements of...
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  • Telmatobius ignavus (category Amphibians of the Andes)
    mountain ridge within the Huancabamba Depression) in the Department of Piura, Peru. Common name Piura water frog has been coined for it. Males can grow to...
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    formed from 23 of the former 24 departments. Formation of another region was delayed by the reluctance of the Constitutional Province of Callao to merge...
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    Sechura language (category Languages of Peru)
    language spoken in the Department of Piura of Peru, near the port of Sechura. It appears to have become extinct by the beginning of the 20th century. The...
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  • Thomasomys lojapiuranus (category Mammals of Ecuador)
    occurs in the Department of Piura in northern Peru and the adjacent Loja Province of southern Ecuador. The scientific name combines the names of these two...
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    Navy on 8 December 2019 carrying over 2,000 kg of cocaine off of the coast of the Department of Piura. According to a press-release, on November 5, 2020...
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    Fasciated wren (category Birds of Ecuador)
    the Department of Piura south to the Department of Lima and also inland Peru from the departments of Cajamarca and Amazonas south to the Department of Huánuco...
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    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:...
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    The Department of Trujillo (Spanish: Departamento de Trujillo) was a short-lived department of the Protectorate of Peru that existed from 1821 to 1825...
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    located in the Department of Piura ($1.5 billion to produce copper by 2008), Perú Copper Inc.’s Toromocho deposit located in the Department of Junin ($1.5-$2...
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    Oasis hummingbird (category Hummingbird species of South America)
    type locality in northwestern Peru's Department of Piura. The nominate R. v. vesper is found from just south of there through Peru into Chile's Tarapacá...
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    Black-billed mountain toucan (category Birds of the Venezuelan Andes)
    The black-billed mountain toucan (Andigena nigrirostris) is a species of bird in the toucan family Ramphastidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru...
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  • Cañari–Puruhá languages (category Extinct languages of South America)
    around the city of Ayahuaca, Department of Piura; now Quechuanized. Calva - extinct language once spoken in Loja Province, Ecuador, north of the Ayahuaca...
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    Rainbow starfrontlet (category Birds of the Ecuadorian Andes)
    northern Peru's Department of Piura C. i. aurora, central and eastern Cajamarca Department in northwestern Peru C. i. flagrans, the western slope of the western...
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