Asiatic stores, restaurants and beauty shops. In the surrounding streets you can find Chinese casinos, churches and even a bank. In Panama City the major Chinese New Year celebration is at "El Barrio Chino” in San Felipe but every Chinese community in others provinces has their own place for this celebration. Peru The main Peruvian Chinatown is located in Lima and is called the Barrio Chino, located on Calle Capón (Block 7 of Ucayali Street); it is one of the two earliest Chinatowns in the Western Hemisphere, and contains various notably Chinese architectural features. Other Peruvian cities with notable Chinese-Peruvian populations include Chimbote, Trujillo, and Chiclayo, all on the north coast, where Chinese immigrants were brought to work on sugar cane plantations. Historical Chinese immigration to the Amazonian region of Peru may be documented in a small village intriguingly named "Chino" several miles outside of Iquitos. Venezuela Venezuela is also home to one of Latin America's largest concentrations of ethnic Chinese. The city of Valencia, Carabobo home of the major Chinese community hosts various markets devoted to Chinese culture where can be found from smoked ducks to authentic pottery. A local newspaper is also edited in Chinese. A lively barrio chino also can be found on Avenida Principal El Bosque in the El Bosque district of Caracas. Cantonese is widely spoken among Chinese Venezuelans, especially the variety commonly known as Hoisan or Toisan, but there has been recent Taiwanese immigration, adding to the linguistic and cultural diversity. Chinese from other places of the world also settled in Venezuela, especially from the Philippines, where they were experienced persecution in the 1970s under Ferdinand Marcos, and Cuba, where Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution seized their businesses. See also Chinese Caribbeans China–Latin America relations Chinatowns in the Americas Caribbean Chinese cuisine Puerto Rican Chinese cuisine Chinese Latin American cuisine References Sources External links Photographs of Havana's Chinatown Information on the Dominican Republic's Chinatown More information on the Dominican Republic's Chinatown Further information on the Dominican Republic's Chinatown Information on Mexicali's Chinesca More Information and Picture of ChinaTown in Panama Further reading Curtis, James R. "Mexicali's Chinatown", Geographical Review (Vol. 85, Issue 3), 1995. Hu-DeHart, Evelyn, and Kathleen López. "Asian Diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Historical Overview." Afro-Hispanic Review (2008): 9–21. in JSTOR Hu-DeHart, Evelyn. "Indispensable enemy or convenient scapegoat? A critical examination of sinophobia in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1870s