Earthquake survivors receive supplies from a Spanish rescue team Monday in Pisco, Peru. Peru turned to cleanup and reconstruction Monday after rescue workers said there was no hope of finding more survivors in the devastation from the magnitude-8 earthquake that killed more than 500 people last week.

Pisco, Peru ? Rescuers gave up hope of finding any more survivors and concentrated Monday on clearing tons of rubble from the streets of this southern port city leveled by a powerful earthquake that killed at least 540 people.

The magnitude-8 quake on Wednesday destroyed more than 85 percent of the homes in Pisco, a fishing port 125 miles southeast of Lima that was the hardest-hit city.

Rescue workers have removed 148 bodies from a church in the city after its domed ceiling broke apart during the earthquake. It was not clear how many of the 300 congregants inside survived the shaking that lasted for an agonizing two minutes.

Jorge Vera, a firefighter who led the operation to find survivors at the San Clemente church in Pisco, said Sunday the rescue work had stopped and the focus was now on recovering the bodies. Friday was the last time a survivor was pulled from the quake’s debris.

Meanwhile, the government was preparing plans to rebuild Pisco.

“I am traveling with the head of the Civil Defense to Pisco to begin the clean-up,” President Alan Garcia said early Monday in Lima after he returned from heading rescue operations in Pisco for the past four days.

Garcia said plans include providing small two-bedroom homes to people who lost their houses, made of concrete blocks and steel rods designed to withstand earthquakes better than unreinforced adobe.

“No one is going to die of thirst or hunger in these cities,” Garcia said Sunday.

But aid was still slow reaching the outlying areas of Pisco.

Only a trickle of aid was reaching hard-hit mountain communities further inland, said Yerma Canales, director of social services in Castrovirreyna, 140 miles southeast of Lima.