History of Pisco

The city of Pisco is the capital of the province homonima in the Ica. Region extends in the coastal district homonimo. Pisco is to 290 km to the south of Lima, capital of Peru. The city includes/understands so much the town, well-known as “Pisco town” like the port and the levee, known like “Pisco beach”.

At the moment it counts on desmotadora industrial activity of cotton. In 1820, Jose of San Martin disembarked in a near beach (District of Paracas) to the port of Pisco. In the city it emphasizes the house where the liberator created the first flag of Peru.

Pisco is a place that was within territory of the Hispanic cultures Paracas and Nazca, even towards the 10,000 a.C., took place the first sedentary establishment due to the enormous marine wealth that old the Peruvians gathered.

In that sense, their cultural and historical vestiges are ample. With the establishment of the Virreinato of Peru, the port of Pisco served as starting point of mercury of Huancavelica and the Pisco that producìa in near valleys. At the moment, as much their port as their agriculture and its vitivinicola industry and of the pisco emphasizes from the first years of the colonial period.