Mollendo, a port of Peru, lying SW. from Lake Titicaca. It has railway connection with Puno (346 miles) by a line passing Arequipa (107 miles), and enjoys considerable trade; but there is no other inducement to reside there, and the population is only 1500.
Mollendo,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 259
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