Callao (per)

Callao

Callao ranks 1,205th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Zenica, Waterbury, Connecticut, and Santa Ana, California. Memorable people born in Callao include Yma Sumac, Claudio Pizarro, and Oswaldo Ramírez. Memorable people who died in Callao include Abimael Guzmán, Augusto B. Leguía, and Mario de las Casas. Callao has been the birth place of many soccer players, and singers and the death place of many soccer players, and politicians. Callao is located in Peru.

Callao is a Peruvian seaside city and constitutional province in Peru. Located next to the Pacific Ocean, it forms part of the Lima metropolitan area alongside Lima province. Its autonomous status dates back to 1836, when it was declared a Littoral Province of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation, after which it was declared a Constitutional Province by the government of Ramón Castilla in 1857. Read more on Wikipedia