Piura

DEPARTAMENTO DE PIURA
Piura, founded as San Miguel de Piura, a city north of the western part of Peru, capital of the Department of Piura, located in the center west of thedepartment, in the valley of Piura in northern Sechura desert, to 973 km north of Lima and close to the border with Ecuador, is the sixth most populous country officially reached and projected tothe year 2012 INEI the 417,892
Inhabitants.
LOCATION
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• Latitude | 05º 12' |
• Length | 80º 38' |
• Altitude | 29 msnm |
• Distances | 420 km a Trujillo1
981km a Lima |

LIMITS

On the north by the department of Tumbes and the Republic of Ecuador, on the east by the Republic of Ecuador and the Cajamarca region, on the south by thedepartment of Lambayeque, on the west bordering the Pacific Ocean.

TYPICAL DISHES

• Dry chabelo: corned beef stew or beef jerky, and banana kneaded.
• Dry beans kid: tender goat stew,marinated in chicha de jora and vinegar, with beans seasoned with onion and garlic.
• Cebiche: raw fish cut into pieces, marinated in lemon juice, onion and pepper.
• Crushed cassavawith chicharron: boiled and pounded cassava with chili and accompanied by crackling.
• Chifles: fried plantain chips.
• The typical sweet custard (made with goat milk, molasses and finerice flour).
• The traditional drink is chicha (corn based drink boiled and fermented in earthen jars).
• Rice kid.
• Green Tamales.CEVICHE

RICE WITH KID



GREEN TAMALES

DRY CHAVELO

TOURIST PLACES

• Catacaos
• Sullana
• Paita
• Talara
•Sechura
• Ramón Laguna
• The Huaringa
• Archaeological Zone Vicus
• The Main Square
• The Cathedral
• Mancora
• Sechura Desert

SECHURA DESERT

MANCORA