Chimbote ; Quechua: Chimputi) is the largest city in the Ancash Region and the 10th largest city in Peru. With a population of 425,367, it is the capital of both Santa Province and Chimbote District.
Ancash is a department and region in western Peru. It is bordered by the departments of La Libertad on the north, Huánuco and Pasco on the east, Lima on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Its capital is the city of Huaraz, and its largest city and port is Chimbote. The name of the region originates from the Quechua word anqash, from anqas ('blue') or from anka ('eagle').
The Peruvian Navy is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with surveillance, patrol and defense on lakes, rivers and the Pacific Ocean up to 200 nautical miles from the Peruvian littoral. Additional missions include assistance in safeguarding internal security, conducting disaster relief operations and participating in international peacekeeping operations.
A steel mill or steelworks is an industrial plant for the manufacture of steel. It may be an integrated steel works carrying out all steps of steelmaking from smelting iron ore to rolled product, but may also be a plant where steel semi-finished casting products are made from molten pig iron or from scrap.
The 1970 Ancash earthquake occurred on 31 May off the coast of Peru in the Pacific Ocean at . Combined with a resultant landslide, it is the most catastrophic natural disaster in the history of Peru. Due to the large amounts of snow and ice included in the landslide that caused an estimated 66,000-70,000 casualties, it is also considered to be the world's deadliest avalanche.
Deportivo Wanka is a Peruvian football club, based in the city of Huancayo in the Peruvian Andes. It was founded in 1969 and is named after the Wankas people who formerly inhabited the area and after whom the city of Huancayo is named. The current Deportivo Wanka is merged with Deportivo Pesquero of Chimbote but its home city is still Huancayo. They play their home games at Estadio Huancayo. Their last First Division participation was in 2004. They protested against their relegation and were suspended from participating in any football tournament.
Teniente FAP Jaime Montreuil Morales Airport is an airport serving Chimbote, in the Ancash Region of Peru. It is operated by the civil government and handles many government planes.
José Gálvez FBC is a Peruvian football club based in Chimbote, Ancash. The club was founded in 1951 under the name Manuel Rivera after the famous Chimbote born footballer Manuel Rivera. The club was forced to change its name because the FPF did not allow clubs to be named after living people. Then on 11 November 1963 the club decided the new name would be José Gálvez FBC.
The Santa Province is one of twenty provinces of the Ancash Region in Peru.
The Huallanca District or Wallanka is the most northeastern of the 10 districts that comprise Huaylas Province in the Ancash Region of Peru. It is in the high mountain range known as Cordillera Negra. The district capital is Huallanca. The district was founded in 1950 by separating it from the Huaylas District.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Chimbote is a diocese located in the city of Chimbote in the ecclesiastical province of Trujillo in Peru.
The district of Nuevo Chimbote is one of the nine that make up the province of Santa, located in the department of Ancash in Peru.
Unión Juventud is a Peruvian football club, playing in the city of Chimbote, Peru.
The 1996 Chimbote earthquake occurred on February 21 at about 130 km off the coast of northern Peru, near the Peru–Chile Trench. The earthquake had a moment magnitude of 7.5 and occurred at 25.0 km (15.5 mi) depth.
Maria Elena Foronda Farro is a Peruvian sociologist and environmentalist. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2003, for her campaigns of improving waste treatment from the country's fishmeal industry. She was elected as congresswoman for the region of Ancash in 2016 as a member of The Broad Front for Justice, Life, and Freedom.
Connor Olev Martin O'Brien is a British-Estonian alpine skier, businessman, and investor. He is president and chief executive officer of O'Shares Investments, a USA-based ETF adviser, as well as president, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Stanton Asset Management, a Montreal-based investment-management company, which he founded in 2002. O'Brien had previously established a private-equity investment firm, Stanton Capital Corporation, in New York City. Before establishing his own businesses, he held positions at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers.
Catholic University Los Angeles of Chimbote is a Catholic university in Chimbote, Peru. The university's rector as of 2013 is Ing. Dr. Julio B. Domínguez Granda.
India–Peru relations are the international relations that exist between India and Peru.
Luis Pércovich Roca was a Peruvian politician. Pércovich served as the President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru from July 1981 to July 1982. He served as Prime Minister of Peru from 14 October 1984 to 28 July 1985.
Víctor Walberto Crisólogo Espejo was a Peruvian politician who served as a Congressman representing Ancash between 2011 and 2016. He died on 17 January 2021, of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru.
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