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Peru, Piura

Paita

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: whaling and cotton-era 19th-century gin.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1875 historic-map era

Old colonial and whaling port of northern Peru.

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