Lima


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South America Seaport, City Lima

City (1990 metropolitan area est. pop. 6,400,000), W Peru, capital and largest city of Peru. Its port is Callao. The city was founded on Jan. 18, 1535, by Francisco Pizarro and is the 2d oldest capital city in S. Amer. It was named the City of Kings by Pizarro. It was the capital of Spain’s New World empire until the 19th cent.

Sources

Robert A. McCaughey

Compiler

Peter Richards

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