Cartavio belongs to the district of

Santiago de Cao Santiago de Cao is a town in Northern Peru, capital of the district Santiago de Cao of Ascope Province in the region La Libertad. This town is located some 33 km northwest of Trujillo city in the agricultural Chicama Valley. See also *Paiján ...

Ascope Province Ascope is a province in the La Libertad Region, Peru. It is bordered by the Trujillo Province on the south; the Pacasmayo Province on the north; the Cajamarcan province of Contumazá and the Otuzco and Gran Chimú provinces on the east; and ...

, in the department of La Libertad in

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. Its coastal location is north of

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, at a latitude of 7°53'S and longitude of 79°13W and an altitude of 16m above sea level. Sugar cane grows in the area and Cartavio has been home to the Cartavio Sugar Company since 1891. Once the site of rum production for Ron Cartavio (now produced in Perú), currently the sugar mill produces not only sugar but also up to 15 million litres of ethanol per year, which could be used by petroleum companies to replace the lead in petrol and thereby reducing the emissions of air pollutants.

External links

*http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PE/13/Cartavio.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20070309060743/http://www.micartavio.com/contenido/principal.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20070509140519/http://www.micartavio.com/conociendo/geografia.html *http://archive.nacla.org/Summaries/V10I3P1-1.html *http://www.unep.org/cpi/briefs/Brief23Feb05.doc *https://web.archive.org/web/20070308110747/http://www.roncartavio.com/english/index_musica.html *http://www.iebenjaminfranklin.com Populated places in La Libertad Region {{LaLibertad-geo-stub