Recent results obtained with the Pierre Auger Observatory are described. These include measurements of the spectrum, anisotropies and composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The ankle of the spectrum is measured at ~eV and a suppression above ~eV consistent with the GZK effect is observed. At energies above ~eV a correlation with the distribution of nearby extragalactic objects is found, including an excess around the direction of Centaurus~A, the nearest radio loud active galaxy. Measurements of the depth of shower maximum and its fluctuations suggest a gradual change in the average mass of the primary cosmic rays (under standard extrapolations of hadronic interaction models), being the results consistent with a light composition consisting mostly of protons at few$\times 10^{18}4\times 10^{19}$~eV. Upper bounds on the photon fraction and the neutrino fluxes are also obtained.

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