- San Vicente de Cañete
San Vicente de Cañete, commonly known simply as Cañete, is a town in
Peru , which is the capital of theCañete Province , in theLima Region . With a population of 25,829 (1999 estimate), Cañete is the main town of theCañete District .The warm and peaceful town of Cañete is located just one and a half hour to the south of
Lima (144 km) and serves, for tourists, primarily as a gateway to Lunahuaná District. The Plaza de Armas lies on 2 de Mayo, a few blocks inland from the spot on thePan-American Highway , where buses pause for passengers to get on or off. All buses heading south from Lima or north to Lima on the Pan-American Highway pass through Cañete. This is one of the most important homes of the most representative liquor from Peru: thePisco .The first inhabitants of these lands were the Huarcos. Later, the area was inhabited by the descendants of the
slave s forced to work on the cotton plantations. The old slaves and their descendents lived here. The slaves arrived from Guinea, Congo, and Angola, brought to the Peruvian coast during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to work in the cotton and sugar cane fields and in the vineyards.It also has a district called Asia which has a lot of beaches which people from
Lima rent houses and there is also a mall calledSur Plaza Boulevard .
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