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callao

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What does callao mean?

proper noun

  1. The largest port city of Peru.
  2. A province and district therein, in Peru.
  3. A minor city and inactive township in Macon County, Missouri.
More meanings (5)

proper noun

  1. An unincorporated community in Juab County and Tooele County, Utah.
  2. An unincorporated community in Northumberland County, Virginia, revised from Callaway, the preferred name.
  3. Several locations in Spain
  4. A cave in Luzon, Philippines; in full, Callao Cave.
  5. 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.
Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the MastProject Gutenberg ebook #2055
As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe island of Doctor MoreauProject Gutenberg ebook #159
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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.
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de NadaillacManners and Monuments of Prehistoric PeoplesTranslated by N. D'AnversProject Gutenberg ebook #3309
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.
Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeagleProject Gutenberg ebook #944