Likewise, it is one of the most important in Latin America, ranking seventh and first in the South Pacific region in 2015.

[7] The port infrastructure has improved in recent years due to different investments that have been made as a result of the concessions.

[12] As ENAPU states, the Callao Port Terminal had a 79.1% participation in cargo during 2000, where the most important thing was the flow of merchandise in the export items of fishmeal, minerals, lead, zinc, agro-industrial products and the import of corn, wheat, rice, spare parts and machinery for Peruvian production.

Most of this growth has been the product of new exports from the country and the consequent demand for inputs from abroad.

In this sense, although El Callao remains an importing port, it maintains a significant portion of container exports.

It is named after its first director, Navy Captain Julio José Elías Murguía.

Among the objects in the collection is the figurehead of the ship Nuestra Señora del Triunfo [es] and the cannon of the Chilean schooner Covadonga.