Chimbote

Chimbote on the map of Peru

Chimbote is a port city of the South American Andean Peru State with about 400,000 inhabitants. This makes it the largest city in the Ancash region of Peru and one of the largest cities in Peru. The town lies at the mouth of the Rio Santa on the Pacific coast between Trujillo and Lima.

In Chimbote is no capacity for irrigated agriculture due to the narrowness of the coastal plain. Instead of letting the water flow into the sea unused, it is supplied mostly through tunnels and canals in the Trujillo oasis.

Chimbote has a - built by the Gutehoffnungshütte - large steel plant, whose iron ore is been transported from the Marcona mine in southern Peru over the city's harbor. The coal comes from the anthracite mines in the Santa Valley.

The economy is fishing, more than 70 percent of Peru's fishing industry are located in Chimbote. Unlike many other cities of Peru tourism plays almost no role in Chimbote, as the city was largely destroyed several times by earthquakes and in case of unfavorable weather, the smell of the fish industry is superimposed on the city. In addition, extensive damage by El Niño (1983) and a tsunami (1996 ) were created. All this has led to Chimbote even for Peruvian relations is a poor city.

The former president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, grew up in Chimbote.

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Sister city of Chimbote is Pensacola in Florida.