San Vicente de Cañete

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San Vicente de Cañete
Coordinates: 13 ° 5 ′  S , 76 ° 23 ′  W
Map: Peru
marker
San Vicente de Cañete
San Vicente de Cañete on the map of Peru
Basic data
Country PeruPeru Peru
region Lima
province Cañete
City foundation August 30, 1556
Residents 31,219  (2017)
City insignia
Bandera de San vicente.png
Escudo de San vicente.png
Detailed data
height 40  m
Time zone UTC -5
City Presidency Segundo Constantino Díaz De la Cruz
(2019-2022)
Website www.municanete.gob.pe
Castillo Unanue
Castillo Unanue

San Vicente de Cañete is the capital of the Peruvian province of Cañete . The city had 31,219 inhabitants at the 2017 census. Ten years ago the population was 26,730.

The city, 5 km from the Pacific coast , is 5 km north of the mouth of the Río Cañete into the sea. San Vicente de Cañete is about 140 km south of Lima . San Vicente de Cañete is connected to the Panamericana by connecting roads (motorway exits) , which leads past San Vicente de Cañete as a motorway-like road from Lima to Chincha Alta . The city is the administrative seat of the district of the same name . Since 1962, San Vicente de Cañete has also been the seat of the Yauyos Territorial Prelature , which is why it is often called the Prelatura de Yauyos-Cañete .

The small town of San Luis de Cañete to the north has grown together with San Vicente de Cañete, but is administratively independent. The district of San Luis has 13,436 inhabitants (2017 census).

history

The first people who are known by name to live in the area of ​​what is now the city of San Vicente were the Huarco. The Huarco were defeated by the Inca and incorporated into their empire.

After the conquest of the Inca Empire by Spanish conquistadors, the viceroy of Peru, Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza , founded the town of San Vicente on behalf of the Spanish king in 1556 , which was nicknamed de Cañete , da Hurtado de Mendoza Margrave ( marqués ) of Cañete was at Cuenca in Spain .

Today the land is settled by the descendants of the former slaves who performed forced labor in the cotton plantations. This is where the slaves once lived and today many of their descendants. The slaves were abducted to work in the cotton, sugar cane and grape plantations from Guinea, the Congo and Angola and settled on the Peruvian coast in the 17th and 18th centuries.

economy

San Vicente de Cañete is the center of a large cotton growing area.

Place of pilgrimage

San Vicente de Cañete a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site . In 1991 the pilgrimage church of Our Lady Mother of Beautiful Love (Santuario Nuestra Señora Madre del Amor Hermoso) was built. Josemaría Escrivá , founder of Opus Dei , gave the miraculous image in 1965 .

Earthquake in November 2013

On November 25, 2013, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 shook the city, which had occurred in two waves.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Peru: Lima Region - Provinces & Places . www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
  2. ^ Conferencia Episcopal Peruana: Directorio Eclesiástico 2002 . CEP, Lima 2002, p. 1138.
  3. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI): Directorio Nacional de Centros Poblados - Censos Nacionales 2017 . Lima 2018, Vol. 4, p. 1311 ( online ).
  4. : John E. Kicza history The Indian in Latin American. Resistance, resilience, and acculturation . cholarly Resources Inc., Wilmington 1993, ISBN 0-8420-2425-5 , pp. 9-12 and 18.
  5. ^ Primer Portal Informativo de Cañete
  6. Diario La Razón : Temblor de 5.6 grados al sur de Lima ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from November 25, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / larazon.pe

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