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- Chira is also a genus of jumping spiders.
- Río Chira from 1925 to 1928 was the name of a motor vessel with a tonnage of 199 gt. Originally delivered in 1914 from Kaldnes Patentslip & Mek. Verksted, in Tønsberg as whale catcher "Viking II", it was in 1925 transferred to Cia Ballenera del Peru Ltda, Callao, Peru and renamed "Rio Chira". In 1928 it was purchased by Hvalfanger-I/S Praia Amelia, Haugesund, Norway in 1928 and renamed "Angola". In World War II the Kriegsmarine requisitioned the vessel as "NS 09 Sindbad" and stationed it as "guard boat" in Stavanger. ´The vessel sank in 1983 near Svartskjær off Harstad.
- Río Chira is the name of the US Navy's motor gunboat USS PGM-111 in Peru.
- Río Chira is the name of a river in northern Peru whose mouth is 20 km north of the provincial capital of Piura. Its source is in the Ecuadorian Andes near the town of Papaca in the province Loja from where it flows for ca 250 km in easterly directions. After crossing the border to Peru, it is dammed up in the 885 million m³ Poechos reservoir and later passes the town of Sullana.
