Monumento al trabajo del mar - panoramio

Zorritos is a town in the

Tumbes Region Tumbes () is a coastal department and region in northwestern Peru bordering Ecuador. Due to the region's location near the Equator it has a warm climate, with beaches that are considered among the finest in Peru. Despite its small area, the re ...

, in northwestern

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...

. It has a population of 6,605 (1999) and is the capital of the

Contralmirante Villar Province Contralmirante Villar is a province of the Tumbes Region in Peru. Its capital is the town of Zorritos. The Cerros de Amotape National Park is located in this province, which is the largest in the Tumbes Region. Geography Boundaries * North: Pa ...

. It is also the main settlement in the

Zorritos District Zorritos District is one of the three districts of the province Contralmirante Villar in Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of t ...

. Its current mayor is Jesus Alberto Luna. Located 28 km south of Tumbes (the regional capital), Zorritos used to be a favourite beach resort for the Tumbes

aristocracy Aristocracy (, ) is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocracy (class), aristocrats. The term derives from the el, αριστοκρατία (), meaning 'rule of the best'. At t ...

, thanks to the

petroleum Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crud ...

-related activities in the area. Many beaches are located in the area, where metal leftovers of the old marine perforation platforms can still be seen. Today, these beaches are frequented by the ''tumbesino'' youth. The city has several small hotels and

seafood Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g. bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus an ...

restaurants. Zorritos is close to the Cerros de Amotape National Park and to the Hervideros

hot spring A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...

s.López Mazzotti, Daniel. A MOCHILA EN PERU. 168pp. Lima 1997. Consulted October 19, 2009.

References

Populated places in the Tumbes Region {{Tumbes-geo-stub