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Lima - Peru
Lima is the capital of Peru and the region Lima Metropolitana. It is the largest town of Peru. An important traffic junction as well as the most important economy and cultural center of Peru are Lima with numerous universities, universities, Muses and historical monuments.
Story of Lima
Lima was Reyes founded by the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro under the name Ciudad de on a native settlement on the south bank of the river Rimac in bulk on January 18th, 1535. The place has primarily been selected because of its strategic situation. Located near by the sea Lima offered one of the simplest access ways to the Andes. The town was extended to one of the most important Spanish bases in South America.
The foundation the Universidad Mayor de of San Marcos as the first university was made by Benedictine monks in South America on May 12th, 1551.
The first settlement contained while Lima was extending block of buildings, still 117 mainly to the north later at first. Another district is 1562 built at the other riverbank been. But the first stone bridge was opened only in 1610. Lima had around 16,000 inhabitants at that time.
Lima took off in 1826 Cuzco as a capital of Peru and developed into one of the richest and most beautiful towns of the Spanish colonial empire. During the South American independence fight the town was the center of the Spanish colonial power. 1861 lived about 100,000 people in it.
Lima was occupied and looted by Chilean troops from 1881 to 1883 during the saltpeter war. The reduction brought wealth and prosperity from guano to the islands off the coast of the town toward the end of the 19th century. Within the years 1940, 1966, 1970 and 1974 earthquakes caused great damage in the town.
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