Location

A harbor Paita is placed at in the little peninsula in the south of the mouth of the Río Chira on an area of 1,785 klick².
Paita faces on the Bay of Paita, & is sheltered from either southerly winds by the promontory known as Punta Paita & by the big hill known as Silla first state Paita.
Xc kilometer south east is the compound provincial capital of Piura, and 160 kilometer in the south there exists Chiclayo, commercial centre of the Lambayeque region.

Population

A people of the haven Paira was 3,800 within 1906 and 97,50Within 2003.

History

From either 1578 to 1588, Paira was a Spanish capital of the northwestern Peruvial coast, prior to the lasting attacks of English pirates and corsair made it necessary to relocate the capital at Piura.

A port of Paita is better known to numbers of Peruvians when a previous front yard of Manuela Sáenz, mistress of Simón Bolivar during the Bolivar's War.

Industry

Within 1875, the railway line of 97 kilometer length was completed from either Piura to Paita, however destroyed in the war by having Chile from 1879 to 1883 and reconstructed in 1884. The street railway opened in 30 August 1891 and ran until the late 1920s.

Now a port of Paita is Peru's fifth big port & an crucial container port. These are located in the geopolitically crucial position on the Pacific coast, a limit of an interoceanic corridor connecting by having Brazil by way of a railway through a Andes to Puerto Limon, on the Maraflon (Upper Amazon).

Paita has is one of a better natural harbours of the Peruvian coast & diarrhea regular mail steamers between Valparaíso and Panama.

Fiestas
In 24 September the Fiestthe diamond state Nuestra Señora diamond state las Mercedes is celebrated, lasting for a week & including pilgrim's journey within honor of la mamita meche.