Piura
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Nickname(s): La Primera Ciudad (The City of The Eternal Heat) |
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| Coordinates: 5°12′S 80°38′W / 5.200°S 80.633°WCoordinates: 5°12′S 80°38′W / 5.200°S 80.633°W | |||
| Country | Peru | ||
| Region | Piura | ||
| Province | Piura | ||
| Founded | 1532 | ||
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| • Alcalde | Oscar Raúl Miranda Martino | ||
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| • Total | 621.2 km2 (239.8 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 55 m (180 ft) | ||
| Population | |||
| • Estimate (2015) | 436,440 | ||
| Time zone | UTC/GMT-5 | ||
| Area code(s) | 73 | ||
| Website | munipiura.gob.pe | ||
Nickname(s): La Primera Ciudad
(The First City)
Piura is a city in northwestern Peru. It is the capital of the Piura Region and the Piura Province. The population is 377,496.
It was here that Spanish Conqueror Francisco Pizarro founded the third Spanish city in South America and first in Peru, San Miguel de Piura, in July 1532. Piura declared its independence from Spain on 4 January 1821.
Like most of northern Peru, the territory of Piura has been inhabited by their autochthonous group of natives called tallanes and yungas. These groups lived without an organization or single leader to rule until the Muchik culture eventually took control, and the mixture of these evolved into the Vicús culture. Centuries later, Piura came under the rule of Tupac Inca Yupanqui for at least 40 years before the Spanish arrived.
With the arrival of the Spanish in 1532, the current mestizo and creole cultures of Piura were born. This mestizo culture includes influences from Spanish Extremadura and Andalucia, African influence due to the arrival of slaves from Madagascar (Malgache slaves), the Chinese coolies that migrated from Canton to work the rice fields and replace the slaves; and also Roma Gypsies who came as pirates looking for pearls or incognito as Spanish horsemen.
The Spanish named the city from the Quechuan word, pirhua, meaning abundance. Nowadays, Piura is known as the "Ciudad del eterno calor" meaning "The city of the eternal heat" because it is hot all year round.
Piura Department has a desert and semi-desert climate on the coast and the western slopes of the Andes, whereas on the eastern slopes the climate is subtropical. Precipitation is sparse except during El Niño events, when rainfall is abundant and water flows through normally dry watercourses, causing flooding and large-scale land movements.
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