Chorrillos
Americannoun
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a city in W central Peru.
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a district in W central Peru.
Example Sentences
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"This measure is a way to make vacationers aware of the pollution they are generating on the beaches," the mayor of Lima's Chorrillos district, Richard Cortez, told reporters.
From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026
A general view of Lima from Pescadores beach in the Chorrillos district of Lima, October 27, 2015.
From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2022
The boy spent his first year of life with Berenson in the women’s prison in Chorrillos, Lima.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011
There was an enforced intimacy about life in the Chorrillos prison.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011
The battle of Chorrillos ended in the complete defeat of the Peruvians, less than a quarter of whose army rallied behind the Miraflores defences.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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