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Chorrillos: Agua Dulce Agua Dulce, Chorrilos, Peru.

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Chorrillos, city, Peru, located in the southern portion of the Lima–Callao metropolitan area. Founded as a village beach resort in 1824, Chorrillos became a town in 1856 and a city in 1901. In 1881, during the War of the Pacific, it was sacked and burned by Chilean forces, and it also suffered heavy damage in a 1940 earthquake. Chorrillos is now a middle-income residential area and contains two of Lima’s most popular public beaches (Agua...

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