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Callao

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Callao

Chief commercial port of Peru, situated 12 km/7 mi northwest of Lima on Callas Bay; sheltered by the island of San Lorenzo; population (1993) 369,800. The port handles 75% of Peru's imports and 25% of its exports. Exports include petroleum, minerals (copper, iron, silver, zinc, lead) cotton, sugar, and coffee. Manufactures include petrochemical products, fertilizers, textiles, and leather goods. It has a dockyard and an oil refinery. Callao is now contiguous with Lima and the combined metropolitan area produces 75% of Peru's manufactures.

Callao was founded in 1537, but was destroyed by an earthquake in 1746 and had to be rebuilt. In 1851 the first railway in South America was contructed here, connecting Callao with Lima. The port suffered further earthquake damage in 1940 and was modernized in the 1950s.
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As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao.
The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context
It is remarkable that whilst Talcahuano and Callao (near Lima), both situated at the head of large shallow bays, have suffered during every severe earthquake from great waves, Valparaiso, seated close to the edge of profoundly deep water, has never been overwhelmed, though so often shaken by the severest shocks.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
Now, gentlemen, in square-sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far manilla; this lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean.
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