Piura (py
`rä), city (1993 pop. 199,484), capital of Piura dept., NW Peru, in the irrigated Piura valley of the Peruvian coastal desert. It is the commercial center for the region's cotton, sugarcane, and rice crops. Textiles are its principal manufacture. San Miguel de Piura, the first settlement in Peru, was founded on the coast by Francisco Pizarro Pizarro, Francisco (pĭzä`rō, Span. fränthēs`kō pēthär`rō), c.
..... Click the link for more information. in 1532, but the site was unhealthful, and the settlement was moved to the present Piura. From there, in 1533, Sebastián de Benalcázar Benalcázar or Belalcázar, Sebastián de
..... Click the link for more information. set out on his conquest of Ecuador. Piura was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1912.
Piura
`rä), city (1993 pop. 199,484), capital of Piura dept., NW Peru, in the irrigated Piura valley of the Peruvian coastal desert. It is the commercial center for the region's cotton, sugarcane, and rice crops. Textiles are its principal manufacture. San Miguel de Piura, the first settlement in Peru, was founded on the coast by Francisco Pizarro Pizarro, Francisco (pĭzä`rō, Span. fränthēs`kō pēthär`rō), c...... Click the link for more information. in 1532, but the site was unhealthful, and the settlement was moved to the present Piura. From there, in 1533, Sebastián de Benalcázar Benalcázar or Belalcázar, Sebastián de
..... Click the link for more information. set out on his conquest of Ecuador. Piura was severely damaged by an earthquake in 1912.
Piura
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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