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 Lima
The Department of Lima is located in the central western part of Peru. Its shores are washed by the Pacific Ocean and in its eastern flank lies the Cordillera of the Andes. More specifically, it is bounded on the north by the Department of Ancash, on the northeast by the Department of Huanuco, on the east by the Departments of Pasco and Junin, on the southeast by the department of Huancavelica, on the south by the Department of Ica and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. It has an area of 33,894 km2 and a population of over 7,000,000 inhabitants – about 30% of the total population of Peru. The Departmental capital is the city of Lima, one of the larger cities of South America and declared a cultural Patrimony of Mankind.
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Historical Outline
The city of Lima –originally known as “La Ciudad de los Reyes” (The City of the Kings) was founded on the 18th of January of the year 1535, on the banks of the Rimac River by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro. The location was chosen due to its ideal strategic and geographical conditions. The term “Lima” derives from “Rimac”, a word in Quechua, the official language of the Inca Empire, which signifies “Speaker”. During the period of the Viceroyalty corresponding to the XVI and XVII centuries, it became the most important and powerful city in this part of the western hemisphere. On July 28th of 1821, after a prolonged period of decadence on the part of the Viceroyal government and a long series of revolts, General José de San Martín proclaimed the Independence of Peru and the beginning of the Republican Era. The Spanish were to briefly reoccupy Lima in 1823, only to abandon it on the following year before the advent of Simon Bolivar and their final defeat in Ayacucho in 1824. In the early 1880’s, Lima was stormed, captured and plundered by the invading army of Chile, during the “War of the Pacific”. After peace was declared, Lima soon recovered its fundamental position as one of the principal metropolis of South America.
In present times, Lima is a modern city, offering a great variety of interesting features to the foreign visitor. These, linked to its rich past, are represented within a harmonious synthesis in its many museums, traditional neighborhoods, restaurants, craft markets and galleries, and cosmopolitan nightlife.
  
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