Chancay District is one of twelve

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of the province

Huaral Huaral is a town in central Peru, capital of the Huaral Province, Huaral Province in the Department of Lima. It is located within the jurisdiction of the Regional Government of Lima-Provinces and is located on the central coast of the country. Et ...

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

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Banco de Información Distrital
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History

In the

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Chancay culture The Chancay were a pre-Columbian, pre-Hispanic archaeological culture, archeological civilization that developed between the valleys of Fortaleza, Pativilca, Supe, Huaura, Chancay, Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rimac and Lurín River, Lu ...

ruled over the valleys of Chancay and Huaura. The mummies found from the Ancon and Zepita necropolis have evidence that this culture expanded far north up to the

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valley. The Chancay culture took place between 1300 and 1450 A.D and after that became part of the

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Chancay was founded by Luis Flores, according to the

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Diego López de Zúñiga, 4th Count of Nieva Diego López de Zúñiga y Velasco, 4th Count of Nieva () (c. 1510 – February 20, 1564 in Lima, Peru) was the fourth viceroy of Peru, from April 17, 1561 to his death on February 20, 1564. Early career López de Zúñiga was a knight of the ...

, on November 16, 1562. By then its name was Villa de Arnedo in memory of the

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he had in

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. Although it was a "Spanish town", according to the 1792 census, the town had a total of 2960 people but only 369 were Spanish. Most of them were slaves and Indians. By the time of Peru's independence, the April 16, 1828 law was created by the people of Chancay, and that made the town a "faithful town" In 1966, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake caused great damage in the north of Chancay and part of the Lima-Callao area. 30 people died in Chancay and 4,000 homes were destroyed, in the Lima-Callao area 100 people died because of the

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and homes collapsed there, trapping the people inside them.

Capital

Its capital, the city of Chancay, is 83 km north of the city of

Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

. The altitude of the city is 43 m.a.s.l.

Administrative division

Populated areas

* Urban ** Chancay, with 32,312 people ** Peralvillo, with 15,634 people ** Buena Vista, with 988 people ** Chancayllo, with 2,199 people ** Cerro La Culebra, with 920 people ** Nueva Estrella, with 701 people ** Pampa Libre, with 5,776 people ** Quepe Pampa, with 1,252 people ** 28 de Julio, with 714 people * Rural ** Buena Vista Baja, with 294 people ** El Hatillo, with 382 people ** Ex Hacienda Chancayllo, with 279 people ** La Calera, with 157 people ** Las Salinas, with 204 people ** Los Laureles, with 160 people ** Los Laureles del Norte, with 157 people ** Los Laureles Sur, with 544 people ** Pampa El Inca, with 237 people ** Quepepampa, with 365 people ** San Cayetano, with 359 people ** Torre Blanca, with 384 people ** 4 de Junio, with 596 people

Festivals

* March–April:

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* June:

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* December: Anniversary of Chancay

External links

*
INEI Perú
*
Huaralenlinea Perú

References

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