The international geography . ruvianterritory, are navigable by steamers for 740 miles. Coast Departments and Towns.—Peru is divided into eighteendepartments, of which eight are on the coast, eight in the high interiorand two entirely on the navigable eastern rivers. Piura, the most northerndepartment on the coast, has as its capital San Miguel de Piura, founded byPizarro. It is in a fertile valley, and a railway runs to its seaport, , along the coast, comes the new department of Lambayeque, alsowith a railway to the port of Etcn. Libertad contains the old city ofTruxillo, founded by
The international geography . ruvianterritory, are navigable by steamers for 740 miles. Coast Departments and Towns.—Peru is divided into eighteendepartments, of which eight are on the coast, eight in the high interiorand two entirely on the navigable eastern rivers. Piura, the most northerndepartment on the coast, has as its capital San Miguel de Piura, founded byPizarro. It is in a fertile valley, and a railway runs to its seaport, , along the coast, comes the new department of Lambayeque, alsowith a railway to the port of Etcn. Libertad contains the old city ofTruxillo, founded by Pizarro in 1535, and now the most important placenorth of Lima. It had an excellent road to its port of HuancJmco, andnow has a railway to tlie port of Salaveriy. Ancachs is partly in themountains, and partly on the coast. It includes the Callejon de , the capital, is 172 miles from the port of Chunbotc, with which it isconnected by railway. The department of Lima contains Lima, the capital of Peru. The city. Mites ^-vP/, y ^9° ay) MoltMido^r Fig. 402. -The Chief Mountain Railtcaysof Peru. 83^ The International Geography was founded by Pizarro in 1535, and called the City of the Kings, inmemory of the epiphany, and also of the two sovereigns, Juana and herson Charles V. The name of Lima is a corruption of Rimac/ an oraclein Quichua, and the name of the river on which Lima is built. The housesand churches are of adobes or sun-dried bricks, and great pains werebestowed on the decoration of the facades of the churches and on somehouses. Lima has railways to the port of Callao, to the bathing resorts ofChorillos and Magdalena, to Chancay in the north, and to the is provided with fine piers and a mercantile dockyard. Y(-a, thecoast department to the south of Lima, has the capital of the same nameconnected with the seaport of Pisco by a railway ; it is a pleasant townsurrounded by cotton and vine estates. In this department excellent wineis made, an
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