Cañaveral is a town in the
Contralmirante Villar Province of the
Tumbes Region
Tumbes () is a coastal department and region in northwestern Peru bordering Ecuador. Due to the region's location near the Equator it has a warm climate, with beaches that are considered among the finest in Peru. Despite its small area, the re ...
in northwestern
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
. It is the capital of the
Casitas District and has a population of 494 (1999).
Climate
References
Populated places in the Department of Tumbes
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