Catacaos
Catacaos is a town in the Piura Province, Piura Region, Peru.
Catacaos is a town in the Piura Province, Piura Region, Peru. It is known for its gastronomy and crafts.
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Worth seeing in and around Catacaos
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Narihualá
Narihualá is an archaeological site in Peru. It is located in the Piura Region, Catacaos District a 17 km south of Piura.
3.5 km · archaeological site in Peru · Wikipedia
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Getting to Catacaos
- Airports
- Capitán FAP José A. Quiñones González (CIX), 194 km
- Chiclayo → Catacaos191 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · S/36–47
- Trujillo → Catacaos366 km · quickest by road, 7h 49m · S/70–95
- Pucallpa → Catacaos760 km · quickest by road, 26h 12m · S/245–325
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Catacaos
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Catacaos. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextTo access Colán, one must get off at where the main highway intersects the road into the city and catch a moto or colectivo into town.
- Go nextTo see the forest, which hosts over 140 species of birds in a mere 600 hectares, it is best to employ a guide for S/12 per day from the village of Yacupampa, about 5 minutes from Ayabaca in mototaxi.
From Wikivoyage: Piura, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.
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Next door to Catacaos
Catacaos is 9 km from Piura, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.