| has gloss | eng: The Chinatown in Lima, locally known as Barrio chino. There are over 6000 Chinese restaurants in Lima called "chifas". Peru is by far the country with the most Chinese restaurants in Latin America. The first 75 Chinese to arrive in Peru - to the province of Cañete and the department of Ica - arrived, to be more precise, in 1849. They came to work in the haciendas along the Coast, at the time lacking labor force as a result of the liberation of black slaves. Throughout the next 25 years, approximately 100,000 Chinese entered Peru. At that time, not only did they work at the haciendas; they also worked at building the railroad and at extracting guano. |
