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RE: Exploring China Town in Lima 走訪秘魯利馬唐人街

in #peru6 years ago (edited)

So cool! Theres something very intersting about the chinese people in Peru as well.

At the end of the 19th century, there was something like a "gold run" in Peru for a material called guano - which its literaly the excrements of bats and other birds combined. They were found in caves and in remote islands close to Peru's coast. This was a very useful fertilizer to use in plantations.
A lot of chinese started to migrate to Peru in that time, but this didnt end well - a lot of them got stuck in their jobs, like a legal "slavery" working full day and night. Guano was exported all over the world and their prices sky rocket.

I think this ChinaTown in Lima was very influenced by this migration.

Anyway, amazing post, congratulations!

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Thats an interesting bit of info thanks. Who would have thought shit would be worth so much!!!