Chiclayo

Chiclayo (chēkläˈyō), city, capital of Lambayeque dept., NW Peru. On the coastal desert between the Andes and the Pacific, Chiclayo may go years at a time with no rainfall. However, by utilizing short Andean streams for irrigation, Chiclayo raises considerable sugarcane, some cotton, and a major part of the country's rice. A major commercial center of the Peruvian north, it is located on the Pan-American Highway and has road and rail connections to Eten and Pimentel.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Chiclayo

a city in northeastern Peru; the capital of Lambayeque Department. Located on the Pan-American Highway. Population, 189,700 (1972).

Chiclayo is connected by railroad with the ports of Pimentel and Puerto Eten. The city’s food-processing industries manufacture dry and condensed milk, sugar, and processed rice. The city also has leather and textile industries and enterprises for the production of building materials. It is the center of an agricultural region that produces rice and sugarcane. A university is located in Chiclayo.

Chiclayo

a city in NW Peru. Pop.: 434 000 (2005 est.)

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Evolucion y perspectivas de futuro, US AT, Chiclayo 2016, 245 pp., ISBN 978-612-47138-6-6.

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Especimen examinado: MUSA 19634: hembra adulta, 20 de febrero de 2016, Plaza principal de la Provincia de Chiclayo, Departamento Lambayeque (6[grados]46'16"S, 79[grados]50'28"W, 33 m).

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Following the imbroglio with their curate, the citizens of Monsefu had their spiritual needs looked after by visiting priests from the neighbouring diocesan city of Chiclayo. But before long they started "to demand Canadian priests from a religious Order, preferably Franciscans," since various groups of Canadian priests and nuns were operating in the area and "were doing very good work" (13; see also Goudreault 372).