Asia District, Peru

Infobox District Peru
district = Asia




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region = Lima
province = Cañete
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pop = 3,900
density = 14
area = 279.36
founded = July 24, 1964
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The Asia District is one of 16 that forms Cañete Province, in Peru. Originally belongs to Coayllo District, it was founded by Benito Chumpitaz Chavez on July 24, 1964. Its beach look at the Pacific Ocean.

Geography

It borders Mala District on the north, Cerro Azul District and Quilmana District on the south and Coayllo District on the east. The principal town is 97.5 km. to the south far from Lima.

Town development

During the mid-seventies, the development of a beach district was taking place. Las Palmas was the first condominium to be developed. Los Cocos came right after, nevertheless it was the first one to have electricity. In the first years, water tanks had to be bought, because there were no pipes linking these condominiums. As well, kerosene lamps had to be used. Soon, others were created and they expanded their territories home owners as time went by. Into the 1990s, with a decent number of "condominios", as they are known in Spanish, the Camino Real, which is the road that connects some of the beaches to the Panamerican Highway, had only a few businesses. These included Ibiza, a night club, Sur Market, the supermarket, and a few others. The following decade was the boom's cradle; the Boulevard that was home to the few businesses got bigger and bigger, enclosing a movie theater, many small shops and restaurants, and the big supermarket E. Wong.

The launching of the new E. Wong store in kilometer 97.5 of the Panamerican Highway was a big hit to the small supermarket, Los Tres Chanchitos, that was one of the first shops in the open-air mall. Statistics have shown that this store has the highest average ticket, in comparison to the stores in Lima. Everything the stores in Lima offer is offered in Asia, and more.

The Camino Real is now home to many more night clubs, these include: Juanito, Cocobongo, Tsunami and others. Inside the open-air mall, there are more clubs as well, such as: La Huaka and Joia, and more expensive ones like Café del Mar and Nikita. The inner section of the commercial area now includes an array of businesses that offer everything one needs. There are 3 movie theaters, games for children, famous Peruvian restaurants, bars, sushi bars, etc.

All these attractions are in a mall called Sur Plaza Boulevard.

The beaches

As it was mentioned previously, one of the first beaches was Las Palmas. Many would say it was inspired by Mejía in Arequipa. This beach club, as it is also called, was born in the 1970s. Its success brought other people who were interested, and hence developed and built other beach condominiums. The district now encloses over 5,000 houses in over 30 condominiums. Nevertheless, the beach side of the district only works and is populated during the summer time, due to weather, and the lack of city characteristics.

The other side

Asia is also a district that is home to many lower-income Peruvians. On the same kilometer the mall is on the Panamerican Highway, there are many lower budget stores and homes, which in fact do work the entire year, because people do live in that part. Moving in to kilometer 103 approximately, there are bigger towns that house lower-income people as well. Asia district have 3,900 permanent inhabitants aprox. Almost half of permanent inhabitants works in agriculture. Between the main cultures they honor the fruit trees, the olive trees and the grapevine. The celebration of the district anniversary is every year on July 24. Between typical plates of the zone they emphasize Sopa-seca, ceviche and carapulcra.

Archaeology

Towards the mouth of the river of Omas "quebrada" is located a preceramic archaeological site. It displays the remains of a small population, with its respective cemetery. The excavations have revealed several rooms with deposits and passages whose walls have been done with great rectangular "adobes". It is believed to could go back until 1100 BC.

Golf

Recent projects that have been under development are those for the golf course and condominium. It is being sponsored by Inmobiliaria Playa del Golf a Real Estate company who has previously developed other condominiums in the area, such as Playa Blanca, Playa del Sol, Playa Bonita and Playa del Golf Stage I and Stage II. The area that will be used as the golf couse is pure sand which gives the perfect surface for building the golf course at low cost, using Paspalum Grass which is genetically designed for those conditions. The project kickoff date was June 1, 2007 and according to the master plan, the course will be ready for summer 2009.