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Pisco (pēs`kō), city (1993 pop. 53,714), capital of Pisco prov., SW Peru, a port on the Pacific Ocean. The major industries are the production of the famous Pisco brandy, the cultivation and processing of cotton, and commercial fishing. On the adjacent Paracas Paracas , Native American culture of ancient Peru. Named after the Paracas peninsula on the south coast, where their remains were first found, the Paracas produced resin-painted pottery and textiles, but little is known of their way of life.
..... Click the link for more information. peninsula are ruins from a pre-Inca civilization.

Pisco

a city in southwestern Peru, in the department of lca. Population, 26,700 (1969). A port on the Pisco Bay of the Pacific Ocean, Pisco had a cargo turnover in 1970 of 900,000 tons. The city is the center of a fishing and whaling industry. Pisco has cotton gins and factories for the production of cotton textiles. Cotton is exported, as are lead and zinc concentrates from the Huancavelica region. Fish meal is produced and exported.

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Bush drank a Pisco Sour (that's Peruvian brandy, lemon juice, egg whites, simple syrup, and regional bitters, for those playing at home) during his trip to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit last weekend.

Morning Memo: George W. Bush Has a Drink; Britney Spears's Boys Take ... by Caroline Bankoff / The New York Observer

If there is a common theme running through an Asia-Pacific summit here besides anguish over the world economy, it would be the prevalence of the Peruvian national cocktail known as pisco sour.

Peru summit hits sour note with 'Pisco diplomacy' by AFP / AFP Global Edition

Residents of Pisco, Ica and Chincha, the three cities hit hardest by the earthquake, held strikes and demonstrations on Friday to demand faster and more efficient reconstruction.

Peru earthquake survivors protest by Aljazeera.net