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 | | 100,000 Chinese contract laborers, almost all male, were sent mostly to the sugar plantations from 1849 to 1874, for the termination of slavery and continuous labor for the coastal guano mines and especially for the coastal plantations where they became the very own labor force until the end of the century. |
 | | After they worked, freed coolies and later immigrants established small businesses, one of their businesses are chifas (name of Chinese Peruvian restaurants which derived from qifan, the Cantonese of "eat rice"), and Lima's Chinatown, known as Barrio Chino de Lima, becomes one of the two of the Western hemisphere's earliest Chinatowns. |
 | | Chinese also attended in the opening of the development of Amazon, where they tapped the rubber trees, washed gold, cultivated rice, and shared trade with the Indians. |
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