Tumbes is the capital of Peru's Tumbes Region, Tumbes Province, and Tumbes District, on the banks of the Tumbes River in Peru's far northwest near the border with Ecuador, at an elevation of about 6 meters. The area was inhabited before Inca times by a people called the Tumpis, and it grew strategically important under Inca rulers including Pachacuti and Huayna Capac; Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro visited Tumbes in 1528 during his first contact with the Inca Empire. As of 2015 the city had about 111,595 inhabitants. Tumbes lies along the Gulf of Guayaquil together with the town of Zorritos and is served by Cap. FAP Pedro Canga Rodriguez Airport.
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1. Tumbes, Peru (Wikipedia)
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Tumbes is a city in northwestern Peru, on the banks of the Tumbes River.
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View the Source2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -3.75, -80.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -3.75, -80.25
-3.75 -80.25 BSh
3. GeoNames: Tumbes - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3691148, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 3691148, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-3.55592 -80.44258 P PPLA PE 24 2401 240101 96946 4 America/Lima
Tumbes (Wikipedia)
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