Callao
Callao is a constitutional region in the Peruvian coast conurbation to Lima. Includes the districts of Callao, La Perla, La Punta, Bellavista, Ventanilla, Carmen de la Legua y Reynoso and Mi Perú.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: province of Peru with 1,130,000 residents
- Description: province of Peru
- Also known as: “Callao Province” and “Constitutional Province of Callao”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El Paraíso and Huaca Capilla Márquez.
El Paraíso
Ruins
Photo: Dibojutri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
El Paraíso or Chuquitanta are the moderns names of a Late Preceramic archaeological site located in the Chillón Valley on the central coast of Peru. The site is situated several kilometers north of Lima, the capital of Peru, in the San Martin de Porres District in the Province of Lima.
Huaca Capilla Márquez
Archaeological site
Photo: Enrique Jara, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Huaca Capilla Márquez is an archaeological site.
Callao
- Location: Callao Region, Central Coast, Peru, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Callao” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كالاو”
- Armenian: “Կալյաո”
- Asturian: “Provincia constitucional del Callao”
- Aymara: “Kallao Jach’a Kamachi jisk’a suyu”
- Aymara: “Kallao jach’a suyu”
- Belarusian: “Кальяо”
- Bulgarian: “Каляо”
- Catalan: “Provincia Constitucional del Callao”
- Catalan: “província de Callao”
- Cebuano: “Callao (lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Callao”
- Chinese: “卡亞俄憲法省”
- Dutch: “Callao”
- French: “Callao”
- French: “Province constitutionnelle de Callao”
- French: “province de Callao”
- Hungarian: “Callao tartomány”
- Italian: “provincia di Callao”
- Italian: “Regione di Callao”
- Japanese: “カヤオ特別区”
- Japanese: “カヤオ特別郡”
- Latin: “Provincia Callaënsis”
- Persian: “کالائو”
- Portuguese: “Callao”
- Portuguese: “El Callao”
- Portuguese: “Província Constitucional de Callao”
- Portuguese: “Província de callao”
- Quechua: “Kallaw Constitucional Wamani”
- Quechua: “Kallaw pruwinsya”
- Quechua: “Qallaw hatun kamachiy wamani”
- Quechua: “Qallaw pruwinsya”
- Quechua: “Qallaw suyu”
- Russian: “Кальяо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Callao (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Callao”
- Slovenian: “provincia constitucional del Callao”
- Slovenian: “Ustavna provinca Callao”
- Spanish: “Callao”
- Spanish: “Provincia constitucional del Callao”
- Spanish: “Provincia Constitucional del Callao”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Callao”
- Swedish: “Callao”
- Swedish: “Provincia Constitucional del Callao”
- Ukrainian: “Кальяо”
- Waray (Philippines): “Konstitusyonal nga Lalawigan han Callao”
- Welsh: “Talaith Callao Constitutional”
- Western Armenian: “Քալաու”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Callao”. Photo: Fausto Cornejo, CC BY-SA 4.0.