Piura

American  

[pyoo-rah] / ˈpyu rɑ /

noun

1. a city in N Peru.

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Piura British  

/ ˈpjura /

noun

1. a city in NW Peru: the oldest colonial city in Peru, founded by Pizarro in 1532; commercial centre of an agricultural district. Pop: 357 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

He arrived at the Augustinian mission in Chulucanas, in the Peruvian department of Piura, in 1985, aged 30, and the following year, joined the mission in Trujillo.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

With 5,275 dengue cases, Piura was by Friday the second hardest-hit city in Peru.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024

Local television showed hundreds of cargo vehicles along blocked roads in the regions of Tacna, Arequipa, Cusco, Puno, Ayacucho, Ancash and Piura.

From Reuters • Nov. 24, 2022

His parents had come from the north — his mother from Piura, his father from Lambayeque — and were staying in a house located in the privileged district when Carballo was born.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2022

These men come from Panama to Payta by sea; and in their road from Payta to Lima, make Piura their first stage, disposing of their goods, and lessening their burdens, as they go along.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert