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callao
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What does callao mean?
proper noun
- The largest port city of Peru.
- A province and district therein, in Peru.
- A minor city and inactive township in Macon County, Missouri.
More meanings (5)
proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Juab County and Tooele County, Utah.
- An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia, revised from Callaway, the preferred name.
- Several locations in Spain
- A cave in Luzon, Philippines; in full, Callao Cave.
- Ellipsis of Callao Man.
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She had a passage of little over eighty days from Boston to Callao, which is one of the shortest on record.
As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao.
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Take for example the Aymaras, the most ancient race of Bolivia and Callao; they laid their dead sometimes beneath megalithic monuments (Fig.
In the Bay of Callao, during a calm day, I noticed, that as the ship dragged her cable over the bottom, its course was marked by a line of bubbles.