106 YEARS CHIMBOTE, Peru The largest fishing port

Thenot of the few ports that are in the story PeruIt is certainly the Port ChimboteA historical and remembered cove is located 422 km from Lima.; a city, albeit slowly but surely, the way to modernism, despite the many flaws, but as a traditional village, heir to the strength of Yungas and Chimu, still struggling hard to make this city the premocionó Enrique Tovar.

Since not feel proud to be successors of the most distinguished cultures, Moche, Wari, Recuay, Chimu and Inca.

Its growth is so rich that to chronicle the story is praising a community of fishermen, the vicar of the town of Santa, in June 1774 gave the blessing before the statue of its most famous patron Saint

The raging of the sea challenged by chimbadores old, gave the necessary to secure its growth until December 9, 1871, the President of that year José Balta force issued a Supreme Decree, the final plan of the approved

And we continue to grow, history, tradition, culture and above all perseverance and that perseverance was made when the December 6, 1906, President José Pardo, enacted Act No. 417, which created the Chimbote District, formed pro

It is since then, December 6, 1906, that each year is due to celebrate an anniversary, to thank Mother Nature for being so prodigious and deliver a blessed sea, grant us, what it costs us, but really dominant without “Luchito” is amrga, Anchovy deepens and was impossible to catch until you pass anger pioneer of Peruvian fishing.

However, today Chimbote is one of the major fishing ports, where a number of industrial plants are based fisheries; it is also the area where capture downloads and processes the bulk of marine resources, creating hundreds of jobs, food and foreign exchange to the State.

These 106 years of creation as a district, should call to reflection and chimbotanos chimboteros to join forces for the sake of growth and development; not falter in its modernity, and become the city one day dreamed Enrique Meiggs.