Pucallpa is the capital of Peru's Ucayali Region, Coronel Portillo Province, and Calleria District, on the Ucayali River, a major Amazon tributary, at an elevation of about 154 meters. Franciscan missionaries founded the settlement in the 1840s alongside Shipibo-Conibo indigenous communities, and it grew rapidly after 1945 once a highway to Lima through Tingo Maria ended its geographic isolation. The 2017 census recorded 211,611 residents, making Pucallpa Peru's tenth most populated city and the second largest in the Peruvian Amazon after Iquitos. In the 1980s it expanded into a conurbation with the neighboring towns of Puerto Callao and San Fernando, and its economy today centers on trade, the timber industry, and tourism.
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Founding Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Pucallpa (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 326,040 (2017)
2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): Opentopodata SRTM 90 m elevation for Pucallpa
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)SRTM 90 m elevation at the infobox coordinates of the city
"elevation": 146.0
SRTM 90 m elevation, band by the lane rule of 10 m or less sea-level, to 500 m lowland, to 1500 m highland
"elevation": 146.0
View the Source 3. 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 -8.25, -74.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -8.25, -74.75
-8.25 -74.75 Am
4. GeoNames: Pucallpa - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3693345, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 3693345, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-8.37915 -74.55387 P PPLA PE 25 2501 250101 326040 155 America/Lima
Pucallpa (Wikipedia)
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Pucallpa (Spanish pronunciation: [pu'kalpa], Quechua: puka allpa, lit. 'red dirt'; Shipibo: May Ushin) is a city in eastern Peru located on the banks of the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon River.
- In Group: Cities of South America (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
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