Ilo city of eternal Spring!

Ilo is a city in southwestern Peru, capital of the homonymous province in the Moquegua Region, located on the shores of the Pacific Ocean south of the mouth of the Osmore River and north of Punta Coles. It is located 140 km from the city of Moquegua and has a population of 66,118 inhabitants according to the XII Census of Population, VII of Housing and III of Indigenous Communities 2017.1?

For centuries its economy has revolved around the production of olives as well as the fishing that developed since it was a fishermen`s cove in 1818, but it is in the 50s that the economic activity of the port had a great economic growth thanks to the boom in the fishing industry and the entry of foreign capital from Southern Peru into the exploitation of mining deposits in the region. Likewise, the city was the place where the Chinchorro Culture and the Chiribaya Culture settled during their pre-Columbian times.

It is the main port of its lies in southern Peru and the one that is most important in the South Pacific in the country due to the large investments that the Government of Bolivia wants to make. The city of Ilo is considered as the financial and commercial center of the Moquegua region due to the presence of large mining and energy industries, run by the Engie company.

From the hierarchical point of view of the Catholic Church it is part of the Diocese of Tacna and Moquegua which, in turn, belongs to the Archdiocese of Arequipa.

Publication Date: 2018-11-24

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