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.
- Type: province of Peru with 1,240,000 residents
- Description: province of Peru
- Also known as: “Callao Province”, “Constitutional Province of Callao”, “Kallaw Constitucional Wamani”, “Kallaw pruwinsya”, “province de Callao”, “província de Callao”, “Província de callao”, “Provincia del Callao”, “Qallaw pruwinsya”, and “Ustavna provinca Callao”
Callao
- Location: Callao Region, Central Coast, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-11.9475° or 11° 56′ 51″ south
Longitude
-77.1037° or 77° 6′ 13″ west
Population
1,240,000
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Open location code
57W43V2W+XG
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Callao” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كالاو”
- Aragonese: “Provincia constitucional del Callao”
- 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”
- Cebuano: “Callao (lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Callao”
- Chinese: “卡亞俄憲法省”
- Dutch: “Callao”
- French: “Callao”
- French: “Province constitutionnelle 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: “Província Constitucional de Callao”
- Portuguese: “Província constitucional do Callao”
- Quechua: “Qallaw hatun kamachiy wamani”
- Quechua: “Qallaw suyu”
- Russian: “Кальяо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Callao (departman)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Callao”
- Slovenian: “provincia constitucional del Callao”
- Spanish: “Callao”
- Spanish: “Provincia constitucional del Callao”
- Spanish: “Provincia Constitucional 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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