Callao Region
Callao
Callao District

Callao

Callao is a Peruvian seaside city and region on the Pacific Ocean in the Lima metropolitan area. Callao is Peru's chief seaport and home to its main airport, .
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  • Type: City with 1,230,000 residents
  • Description: city ​​and main seaport of Peru
  • Also known as: “Callao city” and “El Callao”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jorge Chávez International Airport and Real Felipe Fortress.

Aerodrome
Photo: F Delventhal, CC BY 2.0.
is the main international airport serving , the capital of . It is located in Callao, 11 kilometers northwest of the , the nation's capital city, and 17 kilometers from the .

Castle
Photo: Rarrunat, Public domain.
The is a fortress located within the Monumental Zone of Callao, Peru. It was built to defend the main port of the country, as well as the city of from pirates and corsairs during colonial times.

Stadium
Photo: GORE Callao, Public domain.
is a multi-use in the of Callao, . The stadium is part of the Sport Village of Callao or Yahuar Huaca, which is owned by the Callao Regional Government since 2011.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Lima and Lima.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Western Lima includes the Chorrillos, San Isidro, Magdalena del Mar, Pueblo Libre, San Miguel districts of Lima, to the south of the Rimac River and west of Av. Arequipa. The related districts of , and have their own pages.

Photo: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0.
is the capital of and its largest city. Founded in 1535 by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, the modern city is a curious mix of the modern mega city with some 'islands of modernity', large but orderly slum areas and colonial architecture in downtown.

Callao

Latitude
-12.0523° or 12° 3′ 8″ south
Longitude
-77.1391° or 77° 8′ 21″ west
Population
1,230,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
United Nations Location Code
PE CLL
Open location code
57V4WVX6+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 107988853
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3946083
Wiki­data ID
Q105037
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Callao” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كالاو”
  • Arabic: “كاياو”
  • Armenian: “Կալեաո”
  • Armenian: “Կալյաո”
  • Asturian: “Callao”
  • Aymara: “Kallao”
  • Basque: “Callao”
  • Belarusian: “Кальяа”
  • Belarusian: “Кальяо”
  • Bengali: “কালাও”
  • Bulgarian: “Каляо”
  • Catalan: “Callao”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Callao”
  • Catalan: “El Callao”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Callao”
  • Cebuano: “Callao”
  • Chinese: “Callao Khu”
  • Chinese: “卡亚俄”
  • Chinese: “卡亞俄”
  • Chinese: “卡亞俄憲法省”
  • Chinese: “卡亞俄省”
  • Czech: “Callao”
  • Danish: “Callao”
  • Dutch: “Callao”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاياو”
  • Esperanto: “Callao”
  • Esperanto: “Kajao”
  • Esperanto: “Kallao”
  • Estonian: “Callao”
  • Finnish: “Callao”
  • French: “Callao”
  • Galician: “Callao”
  • Georgian: “კალიაო”
  • German: “Callao”
  • Greek: “Καλλάο”
  • Guarani: “Callao”
  • Gujarati: “કલાઓ”
  • Hebrew: “קייאו”
  • Hindi: “कैलाओ”
  • Hungarian: “Callao”
  • Ido: “Callao”
  • Indonesian: “Callao”
  • Interlingue: “Callao”
  • Irish: “Callao”
  • Italian: “Callao”
  • Japanese: “カヤオ”
  • Japanese: “カリャオ”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಲವೊ”
  • Kirghiz: “Кальяо”
  • Korean: “카야오”
  • Latin: “Callao”
  • Latin: “Callaum”
  • Latvian: “Kaljao”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaljao”
  • Low German: “Callao”
  • Macedonian: “Каљао”
  • Malagasy: “Callao”
  • Malay: “Callao”
  • Maltese: “Callao”
  • Marathi: “कॅलाओ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Callao Khu”
  • Moksha: “Кальяа”
  • Moksha: “Кальяо”
  • Northern Frisian: “Callao”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Callao”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Callao”
  • Norwegian: “Callao”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Callao”
  • Ossetian: “Кальяо”
  • Persian: “کایائو”
  • Polish: “Callao”
  • Portuguese: “Callao”
  • Portuguese: “El Callao”
  • Quechua: “Callao”
  • Quechua: “El Callao”
  • Quechua: “Kallaw”
  • Quechua: “Qallaw”
  • Romanian: “Callao”
  • Russian: “Кальяо (город)”
  • Russian: “Кальяо”
  • Scots: “Callao”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “El Callao”
  • Serbian: “Callao”
  • Serbian: “Kaljao”
  • Serbian: “Каљао”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Callao”
  • Silesian: “Callao”
  • Sinhala: “කල්ලාඕ”
  • Sinhala: “කැලාඕ, පේරු”
  • Slovak: “Callao”
  • Slovenian: “Callao”
  • Spanish: “Callao ciudad”
  • Spanish: “Callao”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad del Callao”
  • Spanish: “El Callao”
  • Swedish: “Callao”
  • Tamil: “கள்ளோ”
  • Telugu: “కాలావో”
  • Thai: “กายาโอ”
  • Turkish: “Callao”
  • Ukrainian: “Кальяо”
  • Ukrainian: “Каяо”
  • Urdu: “کایاو”
  • Uzbek: “Kalyao”
  • Venetian: “Callao”
  • Vietnamese: “Callao”
  • Volapük: “El Callao”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Callao”
  • Western Armenian: “Գալեաօ”
  • Western Armenian: “Կալեաո”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلاؤ”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡亚俄”
  • “Callao”

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