It is the birthplace of Álvaro de Luna and the origin of Sephardi Jew family Canetti (the most famous member of which is Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elias Canetti) —in fact, Canetti is a bastardisation of Cañete—.
Cañete | Cañete Province | San Vicente de Cañete | Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Lord of Cañete | García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete | Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 2nd Marquis of Cañete | Ciriaco Cañete | Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Cañete | San Vicente de Cañete District |
The Afro-Peruvian population is concentrated mostly in coastal cities south of Lima, such as that of those found in the Ica Region, in cities like Cañete, Chincha, Ica, Nazca and Acarí in the border with the Arequipa Region.
Shortly after Teodoro's death, the Cañete brothers co-founded Doce Pares in 1942, while their younger brother and future eskrimador Ciriaco Cañete, concentrated on boxing.
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Of the founding members, only Ciriaco Cañete and his right hand Fernando Candawan Sr. is still alive, however, several senior instructors, foremost GM Dionisio "Diony" Canete, who belong to the second generation of eskrimadores are very much active, teaching their own interpretation or styles of Doce Pares Eskrima.
The headquarters is in the city of Cañete and its jurisdiction extends over the provinces of Cañete and Yauyos of the Lima Region.
Rodolfo Manzo (born June 5, 1949 in Cañete) is a retired professional football defender from Peru.
With a population of 25,829 (1999 estimate), Cañete is the main town of the San Vicente de Cañete District.
Here he sold traditional Peruvian Creole food and bottles of wine and Pisco from grapes grown on land he bought around Cañete, south of the city.
Toro Mata is a type of Peruvian music initially developed by black slaves in Cañete and Chincha.
Ubalda García de Cañete (1807–1890) was the eldest daughter of the Paraguayan dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia.