South AmericaPeruLima region
San Vicente de Cañete
Lima region, Peru · South America
About San Vicente de Cañete
San Vicente de Cañete sits on the route: 5 minutes from Imperial.
San Vicente de Cañete is in Lima region, Peru, with about 26,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Imperial, about 4 km away.
San Vicente de Cañete, commonly known as San Vicente or Cañete, is a city and capital of the Cañete Province, in southern Lima Region. With a population of 85,533 (2015 estimate).
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, primarilyRead more
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 descendants 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.
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San Vicente de Cañete is in Lima region, Peru, about 4 km from Imperial.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 25,517
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Peru
- Region
- Lima region
- Timezone
- America/Lima
- Coordinates
- -13.0756, -76.3853
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Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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