Chalhuanca to San Vicente de Cañete
11/21/2024
Information about the city Chalhuanca
Chalhuanca is a town in southern Peru, capital of the province Aymaraes in the region Apurímac. It is famous as one of the best places in Peru for canoeing and other river-related adventure sports. Their river fisheries are also renown for their delicate produce. Chalhuanca has a resort-placed named Pincahuacho which is famous for its volcanic waters.
Information about the city San Vicente de Cañete
San Vicente de Cañete, commonly known simply as Cañete, is a town in Peru, which is the capital of the Cañete Province, in the Lima Region. With a population of 25,829 (1999 estimate), Cañete is the main town of the San Vicente de Cañete District.
The warm and peaceful town of Cañete is located just one and a half hour to the south of Lima (144 km) and serves, for tourists, primarily as a gateway to the Lunahuaná District. The Plaza de Armas lies on 2 de Mayo, a few blocks inland from the spot on the Pan-American Highway, where buses pause for passengers to get on or off. All buses heading south from Lima or north to Lima on the Pan-American Highway pass through Cañete. This is one of the most important homes of the most representative liquor from Peru: the Pisco.
Cerro Azul, Peru is a district north of the city centre San Vicente de Cañete.
The first inhabitants of these lands were the Huarcos. Later, the area was inhabited by descendants of slaves forced to work on the plantations. The slaves and their descendents lived here. The slaves arrived from Guinea, the Congo, and Angola, brought to the Peruvian coast during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to work in the cotton and sugar cane fields and in the vineyards.
It also has a district called Asia which has a lot of beaches which people from Lima rent houses and there is also a mall called Sur Plaza Boulevard.
