Pacasmayo

Pacasmayo is a port city in northern Peru, in Pacasmayo Province of the La Libertad Region, 108 kilometres north of Trujillo. According to the article the coast has been inhabited for over 10,000 years by people who gathered food from the sea, and the name is given as Pacasca Mayo in Quechua. The Spanish founded the city in 1775 by order of Viceroy Teodoro de Croix, and it became an important landing for the Crown. In 1871 construction began on the Pacasmayo dock and on the railway from Pacasmayo to Chilete, which opened a golden age that lasted until the trains stopped in 1967; the dock and the railway station are now historic monuments. The company Cementos Pacasmayo, begun in 1959, became the axis of the local economy. The breakwater area El Faro, described as the largest navigable wave in the world, draws surfers, windsurfers, kitesurfers and paddle-boarders from many countries.