Chorrillos

Chorrillos
Chor·ril·los (chō-rēʹōs)
A city of west-central Peru, a residential suburb of Lima. Population: 141,881.

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      city, Peru, located in the southern portion of the Lima–Callao metropolitan area. Founded as a village beach resort in 1824, Chorrillos became a town in 1856 and a city in 1901. In 1881, during the War of the Pacific, it was sacked and burned by Chilean forces, and it also suffered heavy damage in a 1940 earthquake. Chorrillos is now a middle-income residential area and contains two of Lima's most popular public beaches (Agua Dulce and La Herradura) as well as private clubs. The national military school is in Chorrillos, and on a hill just to the south of the city stands Peru's monument to its unknown soldier. Pop. (2005) 262,595.

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