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Callao Harbor (1744) Historic map (1888) El Callao was founded by Spanish colonists in 1537, just two years after Lima (1535). The origin of its name is unknown; both Amerindian (particularly Yunga, or Coastal Peruvian) and Spanish sources are credited, but it is certain that it was known by that name since 1550.
English: Locator map of the Constitutional Province of Callao in Peru. Español: Mapa de ubicación de la Provincia Constitucional del Callao en el Perú. Date
Module:Location map/data/Peru Callao is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Callao. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Cusco or Cuzco [d] (Latin American Spanish:; Quechua: Qosqo or Qusqu, both pronounced) is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Sacred Valley of the Andes mountain range and the Huatanay river. It is the capital of the eponymous province and department .
Map of the Peruvian provinces. The provinces of Peru (Spanish: provincias) are the second-level administrative subdivisions of the country. They are divided into districts (Spanish: distritos). There are 196 provinces in Peru, grouped into 25 regions, except for Lima Province which does not belong to any region. This makes an average of seven ...
Callao is one of the seven districts of the Constitutional Province of Callao in the Callao Region, Peru. The Chillón River marks the district's northern border with Ventanilla . On the east, the Callao district is bordered by the Carmen de la Legua-Reynoso as well as the Lima Province 's districts of San Martín de Porres and Lima .
It consists of two areas: the first is the Monumental Zone established by the Peruvian government in 1972, and the second one—contained within the first one—is the World Heritage Site established by UNESCO in 1983 under the name of City of Cuzco (Spanish: Ciudad del Cusco), [2] where a selected number of buildings are marked with the ...
Cusco, also spelled Cuzco (Spanish pronunciation:; Quechua: Qusqu suyu [ˈqɔsqɔ ˈsʊjʊ]), is a department and region in Peru and is the fourth largest department in the country, after Madre de Dios, Ucayali, and Loreto.