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Cal·la·o

 (kə-yä′ō, kä-you′)
A city of west-central Peru on the Pacific Ocean near Lima. Founded in 1537, it is Peru's largest port.
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Callao

(Spanish kaˈʎao)
n
(Placename) a port in W Peru, near Lima, on Callao Bay: chief import centre of Peru. Pop: 813 264 (2005 est)
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Ca•llao

(kɑˈyaʊ)

n.
a seaport in W Peru, near Lima. 560,000.
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Prisoners had previously formed salsa bands at El Callao, and Reano joined one of them after he was sent there in 2012.
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coli (n=55) fueron aisladas de muestras de agua superficiales colectadas en los anos 1999 y 2000 provenientes de las bahias de Pucusana, Miraflores y El Callao (Lima, Peru).
Asociacion de la resistencia al mercurio con la resistencia a antibioticos en Escherichia coli aislados del litoral de Lima, Peru
El Callao port, in Lima, leads the container movement on the Pacific coast and is sixth in the region, according to the ECLAC, with traffic of 2.25 million TEUs in 2017.
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TO GET A BETTER LOOK AT THE human and environmental impacts of mining--costs that stand to get significantly worse if the Arco Minero project goes ahead--I traveled 125 miles north of Las Claritas, to the village of El Callao, which also lies within the Orinoco Mining Arc.
ARC of desperation: Venezuela's decision to open up the Orinoco belt to mining threatens the Amazon rainforest

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