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Abancay
Abancay is a city in southern Peru, capital of the Apurímac region and Abancay province, in an Andean valley on the Pachachaca river, founded by the Spanish in 1572.
Andahuaylas
Andahuaylas is a city and province in the Apurímac region of the southern Peruvian highlands, known as the homeland of the Chanka people defeated by the Inca in AD 1438.
Callao
Callao (Provincia Constitucional del Callao) is Peru's principal Pacific port city west of Lima, founded 1537, hit by the 1746 earthquake, made a Constitutional Province in 1857, with over 1 million people and Jorge Chávez airport.
Castrovirreyna
Castrovirreyna, also written Castrovirreina, is a town and historic silver-mining district in the Andes of Huancavelica, south-central Peru, founded by the viceroy García Hurtado de Mendoza in 1591.
Chiclayo
Chiclayo, Peru's fifth most populous city, capital of Lambayeque department and Chiclayo province (Ciudad de la Amistad). Commercial hub of northern Peru, gateway to the Lord of Sipán tombs, diocese of Pope Leo XIV, province of 20 districts.
Chucuito
Chucuito is a town in the Puno Province of southern Peru, on the western shore of Lake Titicaca about 18 km south of Puno, once the capital of the Aymara Lupaca kingdom.
Huamachuco
Huamachuco is a town and highland region in the northern sierra of Peru's La Libertad department, center of a pre-Inca culture whose stone sanctuary, Marcahuamachuco, is the northern highlands' largest archaeological site.
Jauja
Jauja, or Xauxa, is a city in the Mantaro Valley of the Peruvian central highlands, founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1534 as the first Spanish capital of Peru.
Juli, Peru
Juli is a town in the Chucuito Province of southern Peru, on Lake Titicaca south of Puno, once called the "Rome of America" for its colonial churches.
Juliaca
Juliaca, capital of San Román province in Puno, Peru, is a high-altitude (3,824 m) altiplano commercial and transport hub, formerly Xullasca, province created 1926, population about 351,000 in 2025.
Paita
Paita, historically Payta, is a Pacific port city in the department of Piura, northern Peru, founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1537 and long the main gateway to Lima.
Piura (city)
Piura, capital of Peru's Piura Region, founded by Pizarro in 1532 at Tangarará and re-founded 15 August 1588 at El Chilcal; hot northern coastal city on the Piura River, prone to El Niño flooding and drought.
Pucallpa
Pucallpa, capital of Peru's Ucayali department on the Ucayali River at 154 m, founded 1888 during the rubber boom, linked to Lima by the Federico Basadre Highway since 1942, a major Amazonian river port and commercial hub.
Tacna (city)
Tacna, southernmost city of Peru and capital of the Tacna region near the Chile border; 'Ciudad Heroica' (1828), Chilean-occupied 1880–1929, returned by the Treaty of Lima; about 286,000 residents (2017).
Tarma
Tarma is a city in the central Peruvian Andes, capital of Tarma Province in Junín, Peru, about 230 kilometers east of Lima at an altitude of 3,050 meters.
Tumbes
Tumbes is a region and city on the extreme northern coast of Peru, on the border with Ecuador, and the first Peruvian city to gain independence in 1821.