The most representative port is El Callao The Biggest Port of Peru.
The Constitutional Province of Callao has the largest seaport in the country since the viceroyalty: it is the most important in Peru and one of the most representative in America.
With more than a million inhabitants, this city is characterized by its religious tradition, the warmth of its neighbors, its rich cuisine and for being guarantors of the most powerful salsa movement nationwide.
One of the most significant festivities is that of El Señor de los Mares, with more than 200 years of antiquity, which remains in force. This tradition summons thousands of faithful every October 28, the date that commemorates the earthquake-tsunami of 1746, which destroyed the first port.
Callao Highlights
Among its main cultural heritage is the Huaca Oquendo, an archaeological complex located 9 km from the center of Callao.
Among the evidence found is the Oquendo Palace, an Inca construction that, for some researchers, would have been an administrative enclosure, and for others, it was a summer home for the Inca.
Another imposing figure is the Real Felipe Fortress, a 70,000 square meter military construction, considered the last Spanish redoubt in all of South America. Currently, it functions as a museum and is the venue for civic activities.
A few meters away is the Abtao Submarine Naval Site Museum, a space to illustrate to the visitor what life is like in a military submarine.
The Historic Center of Callao is connected by streets that, with their lanterns, tell of a bohemian past.
In an effort to recover that history and public spaces, the Monumental Callao was born, an artistic and gastronomic center that shows the best of the neighborhood. You can find cebicherías in the port where you can taste the classic leche de tigre de ají, de rocoto, this is the favourite dish of the chalacos!