Callao (Calla`o) , a port in Peru, 7 m. from Lima, with a fine harbour the safest on the coast, if not in the world; its prosperity depends on trade, which is less than it was before the annexation of the nitrate fields to Chile.
Population (circa 1900) given as 32,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Calixtus, George * Callcott, John Wall