Chorrillos

[chuh-ree-ohs, chaw-ree-aws]

noun

1. a city in W central Peru.

2. a district in W central Peru.

Example Sentences

A general view of Lima from Pescadores beach in the Chorrillos district of Lima, October 27, 2015.

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She arrived in court to hear the end of Judge Victor Zuñiga's decision, and was immediately taken to Chorrillos women's prison in Lima.

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Smiling broadly, the daughter of jailed ex-President Alberto Fujimori walked out of the women’s prison in the Lima district of Chorrillos and was handed a bouquet of roses by her husband, Mark Villanella, who had been on a hunger strike demanding her release.

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Fujimori, leader of the powerful right-wing Popular Force party, left prison in the Chorrillos district of capital city Lima, according to a Reuters witness at the scene where supporters had gathered outside in anticipation of her release.

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Young students from poor communities received instruction in the intricacies of classical ballet in Chorrillos, a poor neighborhood of Peru’s capital.

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