St. Vicente of Cañete – Wikipedia
San Vicente de Cañete is the capital of the Peruvian province of Cañete. The city had 31,219 inhabitants at the 2017 census. [first] The population was 26,730 10 years earlier. [first]
The city, 5 km from the Pacific coast, is 5 km north of the mouth of the Río Cañete into the sea. San Vicente de Cañete is about 140 km south of Lima. By connecting roads (motorway exits), San Vicente de Cañete is connected to the Panamericana, which leads here as a motorway-like road from Lima to Chincha Alta to San Vicente de Cañete. The city is the administrative seat of the district of the same name. Since 1962, San Vicente de Cañete has also been the seat of Yauyos territorial prelature, which is why often Prelative of yauyos-CTe is called. [2]
The small town of San Luis de Cañete is now overgrown with San Vicente de Cañete, but administratively independently, is the small town of San Luis de Cañete. The San Luis district has 13,436 inhabitants (2017 census). [3]
The first in the area of today’s city of San Vicente, which is known by name, were Huarco. [4] The Huarco were defeated by the Inca and incorporated into their kingdom.
After the conquest of the Inca Empire by Spanish conquistadors, the vice king of Peru, Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, founded the place of San Vicente on behalf of the Spanish king in 1556, the nickname of Cañete received because Hurtado de Mendoza Markgraf ( marquis ) Of Cañete Bei Cuenca in Spanish.
Today, among other things, the country is populated by the descendants of the former slaves, which did forced labor in the cotton plantations. The slaves once lived in this place and today many of their descendants. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the slaves were dragged to work in the cotton, sugar cane and grape grape plantations from Guinea, the Congo and Angola and settled on the Peruvian coast.
San Vicente de Cañete is the center of a large cotton growing area. [5]
Since 1870, the Cerro Azul-Bahn has connected the port of Cerro Azul am Pacific with San Vicente de Cañete. It stayed in operation until the 1940s. [6]
San Vicente de Cañete a Roman Catholic place of pilgrimage. In 1991 the pilgrimage church of our dear wife Mother of beautiful love (Santuario Nuestra Señora Madre del Amor Hermoso) was created. The image of grace gave Josemaría Escrivá, founder of the Opus dei in 1965.
On November 25, 2013, an earthquake of strength 5.8 shook the city, which had taken place in two shaking waves. [7]
- ↑ a b Peru: Lima region – provinces & places. www.citypopulation.de, accessed on January 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Peruvian Episcopal Conference: Ecclesiastical Directory 2002 . CEP, Lima 2002, S. 1138.
- ↑ National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI): National Directory of Populated Centers – National Census 2017 . Lima 2018, BD. 4, s. 1311 ( online ).
- ↑ John E. Kicza: The Indian in Latin American history. Resistance, resilience, and acculturation . cholarly Resources Inc., Wilmington 1993, ISBN 0-8420-2425-5, S. 9–12 und 18.
- ↑ Cañete’s first informative portal ( Memento of the Originals from August 9, 2020 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note.
- ↑ Robert D. Whetham: Railways of Peru. Volume 2: The Central and Southern Lines. Trackside Publications, Bristol 2008. ISBN 978-1-900095-37-2, S. 52f.
- ↑ La Razón newspaper: 5.6 degree tremor to the south of Lima ( Memento of the Originals from December 3, 2013 in Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been used automatically and not yet checked. Please check original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. from November 25, 2013
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