San Vicente de Cañete
San Vicente de Cañete is a small city in Peru with 33 972 inhabitants ( 2005). It is located about 140 km south of Lima. By connecting roads ( motorway exits ) Cañete is connected to the Pan-American Highway, to the Chincha passes through here as road running from Lima to Cañete. The city is the capital of the San Vicente de Cañete district.
The people Huarcos was established as the first in this country. It was conquered by the Incas and incorporated into their empire. After the conquest of the Inca Empire by the Spanish conquistadors founded the Viceroy of Peru, Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, on behalf of the Spanish king in 1556 the town of San Vicente new, who received the epithet de Cañete, as Hurtado de Mendoza Markgraf ( marqués ) of Cañete was in Cuenca in Spain.
Today, the country is populated by the descendants of former slaves, who performed there in the cotton plantations forced labor. In this place once lived the slaves and today many of their descendants. The slaves were deported in the 17th and 18th century to work in the cotton, sugar cane and grape plantations from Guinea, Congo and Angola and settled on the Peruvian coast.
San Vicente de Cañete is the center of a large cotton -growing region.
Place of pilgrimage
San Vicente de Cañete a Roman Catholic place of pilgrimage. In 1991, the Sanctuary of Our Lady was created Mother of Fair Love ( Santuario Nuestra Señora Madre del Amor Hermoso ). The statue donated 1965 Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei.
Earthquake in November 2013
On November 25, 2013 rocked an earthquake of magnitude 5.8, the city which had taken place in two shock waves.