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    Pisco (Quechua: Pisqu) is a city located in the Department of Ica of Peru, the capital of the Pisco Province. The city is around 9 metres (28 feet) above...
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    Pisco is a province of the Ica Region in Peru. Its capital is the town of Pisco, where the popular liquor of the same name originated. North: Chincha...
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    North: Lima Region East: Huancavelica Region South: Pisco Province West: Pacific Ocean The Chincha Province is divided into eleven districts (Spanish: distritos...
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    islands near the town of Paracas within the Paracas District of the Pisco Province in the Ica Region, on the south coast of Peru. Composed largely of rock...
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    (Colcas, El barrio de las colcas religioso) and finally there is the palace of the Inca (El palacio del Inca). In 2015, an official pisco trail started in...
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    Pisco is a district in middle Pisco Province in Peru. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the district of San Clemente on the north, the Túpac...
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    spectacular sand desert. Pisco is the most important port in Ica and a litoral province. The most important attractions within this province are likely Paracas...
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    representative liquor from Peru: the Pisco. Cerro Azul, Peru is a district north of the city centre San Vicente de Cañete. The first inhabitants of these...
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    Losea. She was one of nine children. Her parents took her to a hospital in Pisco at age five due to increasing abdominal size. Doctors originally thought...
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    September, and occupied the nearby city of Pisco, which was abandoned by the royalists. Peruvian viceroy Joaquín de la Pezuela had instructions from Spain...
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    ISBN 9872091412. Liralg. "Controversia sobre el origen del pisco" (in Spanish). Centro de Negocio de la Pontífica Universidad Católica del Perú. Archived from...
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    Victor Vaughen Morris (category Pisco)
    immigrant to Peru and businessman and bar owner best known for inventing the Pisco Sour, the national drink of Peru. Morris was born in Salt Lake City, Utah...
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    Santiago, in the middle section of the Coquimbo region. Best known for its Piscos, vines were first planted here in the mid-16th century and have seen a recent...
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  • one of eight districts of the province Pisco in Peru. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived...
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    Livyatan (category Pisco Formation)
    referred to whales as "Leviathans" in his book. It is mainly known from the Pisco Formation of Peru during the Tortonian stage of the Miocene epoch, about...
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    Paracas District (category Districts of the Pisco Province)
    one of eight districts of the province Pisco in Peru. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived...
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    Vicuña, Chile (category Populated places in Elqui Province)
    Vicuña is a major center for pisco production. Cooperativa Agrícola Pisquera Elqui Limitada (CAPEL) runs the main pisco distillery in the zone. Economic...
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    San Andrés District (category Districts of the Pisco Province)
    middle Pisco Province in Peru. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, districts of Pisco and Tupac Amaru Inca on the north, Ica Province on the...
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    in the province of Cádiz between Jerez de la Frontera, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, and El Puerto de Santa María. In 1933 the Jerez denominación de origen was...
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    the municipal boundaries of Jerez de la Frontera, El Puerto de Santa María and Sanlúcar de Barrameda, in the province of Cádiz. Being unable to drink the...
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    highlands and the coast. In Peru the abundant production of pisco in Cascas allowed to offer a Pisco Sour norteño. Since 1975 there is a saying that says "if...
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    June 2005) Pisco, Peru (29 November 2005) Moquegua, Peru (29 November 2005) El Paso, United States Spain portal List of mayors of Jerez de la Frontera...
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    Grape/wine distillations Brandy Armagnac Cognac Metaxa Törkölypálinka Singani Pisco (Peru; Chile) Pear distillations Poire Williams Williamine - brand of Poire...
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  • Paucartambo Picota Pisco Paita Quispicanchi Rodríguez de Mendoza Sánchez Carrión San Ignacio San Martín San Miguel San Román Santa Santiago de Chuco Sechura...
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    following a trail begun in 1915, when he had purchased ancient textiles in Pisco. On 25 October 1927, Tello and his team uncovered the first of hundreds...
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    Puerto Madryn (category Populated places in Chubut Province)
    June 1982. Puerto Montt, Chile Paola, Italy Nefyn, Wales, United Kingdom Pisco, Peru Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico View of Puerto Madryn from the bay with...
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    Cerro de Pasco is a city in central Peru, located at the top of the Andean Mountains. It is the capital of both the Pasco Province and the Department of...
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    plantings of the grape known as Pedro Ximénez or Pedro Jimenez used in pisco production are actually an entirely different variety known in Argentina...
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  • Paucartambo Picota Pisco Paita Quispicanchi Rodríguez de Mendoza Sánchez Carrión San Ignacio San Martín San Miguel San Román Santa Santiago de Chuco Sechura...
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    United States Königswinter, Germany Michalovce, Slovakia Perth, Scotland Pisco, Peru Tovuz, Azerbaijan Valdepeñas, Spain Vyškov, Czech Republic The Musée...
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