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    A pisco sour is an alcoholic cocktail of Peruvian origin that is traditional to both Peruvian and Chilean cuisine. The drink's name comes from pisco, a...
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    In Peru, pisco is a "designation of origin" that is reserved for the alcoholic beverage belonging to a variety of grape aguardiente produced in Peru since...
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    Pisco is a colorless or yellowish-to-amber-colored spirit produced in winemaking regions of Peru and Chile. Made by distilling fermented grape juice into...
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  • About.com Guide (30 January 2012). "Chilcano de Pisco - Peruvian Brandy Cocktail - Chilcano de Pisco Recipe". Southamericanfood.about.com. Archived from...
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    Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil...
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    uncertain, but according to Peruvian author Abraham Valdelomar, San Martín, having arrived on the coast of southern Pisco, was inspired by the colors...
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    Ica. Initially 17 people died and 70 were killed when a church collapsed. Pisco was even more severely damaged and many people were buried under buildings...
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    Band of Holes (category Geology of Peru)
    series of about 5,000–6,000 man-sized holes found in the Pisco Valley on the Nazca Plateau in Peru. Local people have no idea who made them or how they were...
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    ICAO: SPSO) is an airport serving Pisco, an oceanside city in the Ica Region of Peru. It is used by the Peruvian Army, but it can be also used by civil...
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    Lina Medina (category Child sexual abuse in Peru)
    Province, Peru, to parents Tiburelo Medina, a silversmith, and Victoria Losea. She was one of nine children. Her parents took her to a hospital in Pisco at age...
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    The BAP Pisco (AMP-156), recently launched on 25 April 2017, as well as the BAP Paita which is currently under construction will provide Peru with increased...
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    (Ica) Nazca (Nazca) Palpa (Palpa) Pisco (Pisco) Capital of the Ica Department. A very modern clean city that has Peruvian street markets, many old churches...
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  • Santiago Queirolo (category Peruvian people of Italian descent)
    was a Peruvian pisco producer based in Pueblo Libre, a district in Lima.[citation needed] Italian immigrant Santiago Queirolo Raggio arrived in Peru in the...
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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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    the northern 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...
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  • Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Spanish: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with...
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    Chincha Islands (category Pacific islands of Peru)
    21 kilometres (13 mi) off the southwest coast of Peru, to which they belong, near the town of Pisco. Since pre-Incan times they were of interest for their...
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    South America (redirect from America do Sul)
    forms of mate in that it is served cold. Pisco is a liquor distilled from grapes in Peru and Chile. Peruvian cuisine mixes elements from Chinese, Japanese...
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    New World wine (section Peru)
    Americas was in the central and southern coast of Peru, specifically in the area of Ica and Pisco. Apart from Peru and Chile Paraguay developed despite its high...
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    de Omate that produces pisco and wine. The town is also considered to be one of the most important producing centers in Peru. The attractions in Omate...
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    Chileans de facto control of the Peruvian province of Ica. On 2 December, 3,500 additional men and 416 horses disembarked in Pisco. Some two weeks later, on...
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    Chincha, Pisco, Ica and Nazca. Formerly the communities to the south of Lima were known as the peoples with the highest intensity of Afro-Peru, but due...
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    Peru has many languages in use, with its official languages being Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. Spanish has been in the country since it began being taught...
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    (1 April 1990). "Cenozoic marine sedimentation in the Sechura and Pisco basins, Peru". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 77 (3–4): 235–261...
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    on the Peruvian Coast (1979) Peloso, Vincent C. Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru (Duke University...
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    "Controversia sobre el origen del pisco" (in Spanish). Centro de Negocio de la Pontífica Universidad Católica del Perú. Archived from the original on 31...
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    (Spanish: distritos). There are 196 provinces in Peru, grouped into 25 regions, except for Lima Province which does not belong to any region. This makes an average...
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    Chicha morada (category Peruvian drinks)
    regions of Perú but is currently consumed at a national level. The base ingredient of the drink is corn culli or ckolli, which is a Peruvian variety of...
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    the bay of Pisco in today's Region of Ica and captured the province by the following day. In an attempt to negotiate, the viceroy of Peru sent a letter...
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    Varig Flight 810 (category Aviation accidents and incidents in Peru)
    would also reach Pisco at 08:13, but the DC-6 was at an altitude of 13,500 feet (4,100 m). At 08:14, one minute after passing Pisco, the Boeing 707 started...
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