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62 unusual facts about Lima


Alberto Andrade

A former mayor of Miraflores, he made many public works for this district and currently, his brother Fernando Andrade is the district's mayor.

Alonso de San Buenaventura

He stopped in Lima (present-day Peru) for two years to teach novices, and came back to Paraguay in 1588–1589 with a new group of Franciscans.

AnimaNaturalis

As an international non-profit organization, it has offices in Madrid (Spain), Cadiz (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Bogota (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Caracas (Venezuela), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Logroño (Spain), Mexico Federal District (Mexico), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Santiago de Chile (Chile).

Anthony Leeds

Leeds conducted field work among the Yaruro people in Venezuela, in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, in the barriadas of Lima, Peru, and on labor migration in Portugal.

Augusto Huaman Velasco

Son of a Jurist, Landowner and an avid traveler Dr. Gil Huaman; Dr. Augusto Huaman studied during the golden years in the, then prestigious, "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" High School in Lima, Peru.

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Vargas Llosa's novel was later adapted as a Hollywood feature film, Tune in Tomorrow, in which the setting was moved from Lima to New Orleans.

Battle of Miraflores

The Battle of Miraflores occurred on January 15, 1881 in the Miraflores District of Lima, Peru.

Benton McMillin

Shortly after arriving in the Peruvian capital, Lima, he helped negotiate an "Advancement of Peace" that formalized relations between the two countries.

Catalina Casino

Additionally, the theatre still has its original 4-manual, 16 rank theatre pipe organ built by the Page Organ Company of Lima, Ohio.

Chinese Peruvian

Calle Capón, Lima's Chinatown, also known as Barrio Chino de Lima, became one of the Western Hemisphere's earliest Chinatowns.

Club Cultural Deportivo Géminis

The club was founded on the October 29, 1967 under the name of Club Cultural Deportivo Géminis in the city of Comas, Lima.

Club de la Union

The club also maintains a beach headquarters in the Santa Rosa District which also serves as a sports complex.

Curaco de Vélez

On 13 and 15 January 1881, in command of his squadron, Riveros provided protective fire for the army assault that defeated the Peruvian forces leading to the surrender of Lima and Callao.

Diego de Sandoval

In 1567 king Phillip II gave him his own coat of arms, in which some of his exploits, like the breaking the siege of Lima, were shown.

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He lost all his commands and was taken prisoner to Lima during the uprising of Gonzalo Pizarro.

Elcine

The first festival was first held in 1997 under the name "Elcine Festival" at the PUCP Cultural Center in San Isidro District Lima, which continues to host the main festival.

Erbessa lamasi

The species is named in honor of Gerardo Lamas Muller, Director of the Museo de Historia Natural, Lima, Peru, and curator in the Departamento de Entomologıa.

Francis Alÿs

In his best-known work, When Faith Moves Mountains (2002), Alÿs recruited 500 volunteers in Ventanilla District outside of Lima, Peru.

Frères des Hommes

Cenca in Peru walks with Lima poorest people, it develops economic activities for them and it helps them to become collective subjects.

Gastón Acurio

It opened in the district of Miraflores in Lima and expanded in Latin America and recently in Europe, opening restaurants in Santiago de Chile, Bogotá, Quito, Caracas, all South America and Europe.

Gillian Ryan

She learned that Posegay was moving to NBAC shortly after her return from Lima, Peru, where she won silver and bronze medals at the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in 2011.

Global Underground 035: Lima

Global Underground 035: Lima is a DJ mix album in the Global Underground series, compiled and mixed by DJ and producer Nick Warren, who claims that the mix is made up entirely of 'exclusive' tracks purportedly inspired by the Peruvian capital Lima.

GWR 9400 Class

Lima produced a model of the class in 00 gauge between 1978 and 1985

Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke

He then traveled to Peru where he started work at the Javier Prado Museum of Natural History in Lima, an institution affiliated with the National University of San Marcos.

Huarmey Province

It is located around 4 hours by bus from Lima and its main economic activities are agriculture, fishing and mineral shipping.

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Jeremy Slate

He then joined Grace Steamship Lines and moved with his family to Lima, Peru.

José Antonio Dammert Bellido

Bellido was appointed Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Lima, along with Titular Bishop of Amathus in Palaestina, on April 14, 1958 and ordained bishop May 15, 1958.

Juan Guevara

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LAN Argentina

It is an affiliate of LAN Airlines and operates scheduled domestic services from Buenos Aires to Bariloche, Córdoba, Comodoro Rivadavia, El Calafate, Mendoza, Puerto Iguazú, Neuquén, Río Gallegos, Salta, San Juan, Tucumán and Ushuaia, and international services to Lima, Miami, Punta Cana, Santiago and Sao Paulo.

LANSA Flight 508

LANSA Flight 508 was a Lockheed L-188A Electra turboprop, registered OB-R-941, operated as a scheduled domestic passenger flight by Lineas Aéreas Nacionales Sociedad Anonima (LANSA), that crashed in a thunderstorm en route from Lima, Peru to Pucallpa, Peru, on December 24, 1971, killing 91 people – all 6 of its crew and 85 of its 86 passengers.

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Juliane Koepcke was a high school senior studying in Lima, intending to become a zoologist, like her father, Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke.

Law Courts of Brussels

Although lacking the dome and being much smaller, the Justice Palace in Lima in Peru, which houses the Supreme Court of Peru, is based upon the Brussels Palace of Justice.

Lima, Illinois

Lima is the hometown of well-known archaeologist and anthropologist Stuart Struever.

Luis Aguirre Pinto

Four years later he began his first continental tour with Angela Ferrari, European tango performer, and in Lima, composed one of his first popular songs, the waltz Reminiscencia.

Manuel Bulnes

Then Bulnes commanded the Chilean army in 1838 against Gen. Santa Cruz in Peru; and, after taking Lima and winning the battles of Huaraz and Puente del Buin, combined his forces with those of Gamarra and defeated Santa Cruz at the Battle of Yungay (January 19, 1839), thus putting an end to the confederation between Peru and Bolivia.

Marcos Maturana

During the War of the Confederation he fought at the battles of Portada de Guías (1838) and Yungay (1839), and in the capture of Lima.

Miss Perú Universo 2009

Miss Perú 2009, the 57th Miss Perú pageant was held at the Hacienda Villa de Chorillos, in Lima, Perú on April 4, 2009.

Nicomedes Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz was born in La Victoria District, Lima, Peru to Nicomedes Santa Cruz Aparicio and Victoria Gamarra Ramirez, and was the ninth of ten siblings.

Oscar Pezzano

He was the goalkeeper in two significant international matches against Feyenoord in 1970 and against Nacional de Montevideo in the 1971 Copa Libertadores decider played in Lima, Peru.

Peter Safar

That same year, he worked in Lima, Peru and founded that country's first academic anesthesiology department.

Phyllodactylus lepidopygus

Within the city of Lima, sightings were reported in 2004 in the Pantanos de Villa Reserved Zone, where the species may have found a good opportunity to survive.

Pío de Tristán

Juan Pío de Tristán (in full, Juan Pío de Tristán y Moscoso) (July 11, 1773, Arequipa Peru—August 24, 1860, Lima) was a Peruvian general and politician.

Porcuna

One of Porcuna's famous sons is the Baroque poet Juan del Valle y Caviedes, born here around 1645, who moved to Perú at an early age and wrote biting satirical works attacking the hypocrisy of the Colonial upper class society of Lima.

Printing in Goa

This was after Mexico had seen its first printing press, but preceded the press in Lima.

Purussaurus

During the summer of 2005, a Franco-Peruvian expedition (the Fitzcarrald expedition) found new fossils of Purussaurus in the Peruvian Amazon (600 km from Lima).

Reality Sandwiches

Then in Lima he knew the Peruvian poet Martín Adán who was living in the Hotel El Comercio where Ginsberg rented a room.

Red April

“Ayacucho is a strange place. The seat of the Wari culture was here, and then the Chanka people, who never allowed themselves to be subjugated by the Incas. And later were the indigenous uprisings because Ayacucho was the half-way point between Cuzco, the Inca capital, and Lima, the Spaniards’ capital. And independence in Quinua (cf., Quinua, Peru). And Sendero. This place is condemned to be bathed in blood and fire forever, Chacaltana.”(Roncagliolo, p. 245 Spanish edition).

Ricardo Rossel

As member of the Army Reserve Battalion, he was called on active duty and assigned to the Redoubt # 2 in Miraflores, confronting a ruthless enemy, and seeing with sadness and anger the looting and stealing of the books of the National Library by the Chilean forces.

Roberto Challe

He later played for Universitario de Deportes where he became four times Peruvian champion in 1966, 1967, 1969 and 1971, Defensor Lima with whom he won the league one more time in 1973, Sport Boys and Sporting Cristal.

Ronda Campesina

Even though the internal conflict is now largely confined to the VRAE and has greatly diminished since 1992, the term Rondero is still used in everyday speech in Peru to signify a volunteer neighbourhood watchman either the countryside or in the sub-urbs of cities such as Lima or Trujillo.

San Felipe Cooperative School

It is located at 985 Avenida Gregorio Escobedo in the city district of Jesús María, and within the limits of San Felipe residential complex.

Stuart Struever

Struever was born in Lima, Illinois on August 4, 1931, the son of manager of the American Nickeloid Company.

Tassos Denegris

He has also given readings of his work in Belgrade, New Delhi, Strasburg, Tübingen, Colombia, and in 1998 was on of gathering of "Poets of the World" who met in Lima.

Tomás Guido

Guido then worked as a diplomat for San Martín during the effort to liberate Peru, he negotiated with the Spanish Viceroy at Miraflores before San Martín declared Peruvian Independence on July 28, 1821.

Tomcito

Racing at Lima, Peru's Hipodromo de Montericco, Tomcito won his debut race in such impressive fashion that his handlers decided to enter him in the September 23 Group One Clasico Polla de Potrillos (Peruvian 2000 Guineas).

Víctor Andrés Belaúnde

After receiving his early education there at the "Escuela San Vicente and San José," (Colegio San José) he decided to study law at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa, and later transferred to finish his studies at the National University of San Marcos in Lima.

Victor Delfín

He is best known for his monumental El Beso (the kiss), a large sculpture unveiled in 1993 in the "Love Park" by the Pacific Ocean in the Miraflores district of Lima.

Wacław Sierpiński

Honorary Degrees: Lwów (1929), St. Marks of Lima (1930), Amsterdam (1931), Tarta (1931), Sofia (1939), Prague (1947), Wrocław (1947), Lucknow (1949), and Moscow (1967).

William Curtis Farabee

He was appointed as an honorary member of the faculty at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru.

WNHC

WNHC-LP, a low-power radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Lima, Ohio, United States

Women in the California Gold Rush

Other French prostitutes showed up from French settlements in Lima Peru and Santiago Chile.


1912 Liga Peruana de Football

This first season with organised league, covering Lima, Callao, and suburbs such as Miraflores and Barranco.

Al Fondo Hay Sitio

One of the most exclusive areas of Lima, "Las Lomas", is shaken up by the arrival of the Gonzales family from Huamanga, Ayacucho.

Alstom Metropolis

The trains are in service in 22 major cities around the world, representing more than 3000 cars, including Singapore, Shanghai, Budapest, Warsaw, Nanjing, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima, Santiago de Chile, Barcelona, Istanbul and Santo Domingo.

Antonio Cornejo Polar

He received a PhD from the National University of San Agustin in Arequipa, became a professor there as well, then in 1966 he becomes Professor in National University of San Marcos, Lima.

Aserca Airlines

Aserca's operations were centred around Valencia, but it managed to develop Caracas as a hub after 1994 which made it experience a significant growth in its market share, expanding its network to Bogotá, Lima and Miami (no longer in service) via Aruba.

Assembly of God Bethlehem Ministry

In 2008, Ministério do Belém was chaired by Pastor José Wellington Bezerra da Costa, who succeeded Pastor Cicero Canuto de Lima, who also had chaired the CGADB.

Bernardo de Iturriaza

Bernardo de Iturriaza (1608, Ezcaray, La Rioja, Spain—1678, Lima) was a Spanish judge and colonial official.

Boliviana de Aviación

Boliviana de Aviación also plans to open new routes for 2011: Caracas (Venezuela), Havana (Cuba), Lima (Perú) and Santiago (Chile).

Caitro Soto

Pedro Carlos Soto de la Colina (October 23, 1934, San Luis, Cañete Province, Peru – July 19, 2004, Lima), popularly known as Caitro Soto, was an Afro-Peruvian musician and composer.

Demographics of Peru

The Afro-Peruvian population is concentrated mostly in coastal cities south of Lima, such as that of those found in the Ica Region, in cities like Cañete, Chincha, Ica, Nazca and Acarí in the border with the Arequipa Region.

Earthquakes in 2011

Local newspapers reported that the earthquake was felt in Lima and in Rio Branco.

Eliane Lima

Lima’s short films have screened in the Liverpool Biennial (UK), SFMOMA (SF), Victoria Theater (SF), Anthology Film Archives (NY), Pacific Film Archive (SF), Brazil, Cuba, Canada, and elsewhere.

Felipe Pinglo Alva

Contemporary writings indicate that Pinglo participated in cultural events organized by syndicalists of the era, such as the homage to sculptor Delfín Lévano in a theatre in the La Victoria neighborhood in Lima.

Fernando de Moraes

Fernando Jorge Lima de Moraes, commonly referred to as Fernando, (born 21 January 1980 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian-Australian, footballer who plays for South Melbourne in the Victorian Premier League.

Francisco de Carvajal

In the campaign of 1546 Carvajal violently put down the royalist forces in the south of the colony, marching and countermarching from Quito to San Miguel, from Lima to Guamanga and back to Lima, from Lucanas to Cuzco, from Collao to Arequipa and from Arequipa to Charcas.

Gibbsville

Gibbsville, Wisconsin, a census-designated place in the town of Lima, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States

Gobernador Horacio Guzmán International Airport

Aerolíneas Argentinas used to use Jujuy Airport for refuelling before long flights to Bogotá, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Lima.

Harris Whitbeck

Since joining CNN in 1991, Whitbeck has reported on worldwide events including the war in Iraq and its aftermath, the U.S. led war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the 2004 Haitian coup d'état, the rebellion in Chiapas, several papal visits to Latin America and the hostage crisis at the Japanese embassy in Lima.

Héctor Chumpitaz

Despite retiring, Chumpitaz continued being a public figure, and, on December 3, 2004, he was found guilty and sentenced to four years of suspended sentence (probation), for allegedly accepting US$30,000 from presidential advisor and right-hand man Vladimiro Montesinos, supposedly after joining former minister Juan Carlos Hurtado in latter's quest to become mayor of Lima in 1998, during Alberto Fujimori's presidency.

Hipódromo de Monterrico

The Hipódromo de Monterrico is a Thoroughbred horse racing facility opened in 1960 in Lima, Peru.

History of the Torneo Descentralizado

Football was played regionally, with Lima's first division being the most important league, turning professional in 1951, and having its champion qualify to the Copa Libertadores starting in 1960.

Hornby's Storm Petrel

It is thought to breed between March and July, as this is when fledglings are regularly seen at sea around Lima (in Peru) and Antofagasta (in Chile).

Inca Kola

In 1911, in Rímac, one of Lima's oldest and most traditional neighborhoods, an immigrant English family began a small bottling company under their family name, Lindley.

Juana Manuela Gorriti

Gorriti did not receive the divorce papers until fourteen years later, during the shelling on Lima's port by the Spanish Navy in 1866.

La Cruz del Viajero

La Cruz del Viajero (The Cross of the Traveller) is a monument placed by Franciscan monks in 1672 in the small town of Magdalena Vieja (now Pueblo Libre), just outside Lima, the capital city of Peru, and the old centre of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.

La Lima

Many soccer players have come out from La Lima, Carlos Pavón, Milton "Chocolate" Flores, José Luis "El Pili" Aguirre, Marco Vinicio "El Chacal" Ortega, José Luis López, Reynaldo "El Chino" Pineda, José "La Coneja" Cardona.

LANSA Flight 502

More than half of the passengers belonged to a single group, sponsored by the Buffalo, New York based International Fellowship student exchange program, consisting of 49 American high school exchange students, along with their teachers, family members, and guides, who were returning from a visit to nearby Machu Picchu to their host families in the Lima area.

Latin American literature

Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Luis A. Eguiguren

He was the director of the General Archive (File) of the Nation (1914), Alderman of Lima (1914-1920), Mayor of Lima (1930), President of the Constituent Congress (1930-1932), founder and leader of the Social Democratic Party.

Manuel Lima

Lima has a BFA degree in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Architecture at Technical University of Lisbon and a MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design.

Mariano Enrique Calvo Cuellar

He then became Vice-President of the Bolivian portion of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, again under Santa Cruz, who was both President of Bolivia and the Confederation's Supreme Protector in Lima.

Max Arias-Schreiber Pezet

He studied at Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta (Lima) and Institut Le Rosey (Switzerland).

Micaela Villegas

Born in either Tomayquichua (in the province of Huanuco) or the capital city of Lima, she was baptized at the Lima Cathedral on December 1, 1748.

MPB4

The initial lineup featured Miltinho (Milton Lima dos Santos Filho, Campos dos Goytacazes, October 18, 1943), Magro (Antônio José Waghabi Filho, Itaocara, RJ, November 14, 1943-August 8, 2012), Achilles (Achille Rique Reis, Niterói, RJ, May 22, 1948) and Ruy Faria (Ruy Alexandre Faria, Cambuci, RJ, July 31, 1937).

Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované

He was survived by his wife, Amelia Lyons de Alfaro; three sons, Dr. Victor Ricardo of Washington, Ivan Jose of Lima, Peru, and Rogelio Edwin of Panama City; two daughters, Mrs. Frank H. Weller (née Amelia or Amelita Victoria) of Potomac, Maryland, and Mrs. H. Cabell Maddux (née Yolanda Maria) of McLean, Virginia; and many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, among them the singer Nancy Ames, and attorney and TV personality Elbert Alfaro in Miami Lakes, Florida.

Rímac District

Downtown Rímac District has, like its southern counterpart, its eastern and western sides divided by Jirón Trujillo, which connects to Lima District's Jirón de la Unión through the Puente de Piedra, the oldest bridge in the whole city.

Stephen S.F. Chen

In November, 2008 he traveled with Lien Chan, special envoy of President Ma Ying-Jeou to the APEC meeting in Lima, Peru where in a side meeting they met with the People's Republic of China's President Hu Jintao, in the highest level of official exchange between mainland China and Taiwan on an international stage.

Theo Constanté

The work of Theo Constanté can be found in galleries, museums and collections throughout Guayaquil, Quito, Lima, Cali, São Paulo, Miami, New York, Paris, and Madrid.