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LIMA, THE
CITY OF THE KINGS
BRIEF HISTORY REVIEW
The city of Lima, more known as the "City of the Kings", was founded the 18 of January of
1535 by Francisco Pizarro, locating it at the right side of the Rimac River.
Lima, which name comes from the indigenous word Rimac, that translated means talker,
started to grow between the testimonies of this millenary cultures that developed in all
this zone. It converted in the XVI and XVII Century into the most important and powerful
metropolis in the Spanish America. It was the center of all the commercial and cultural
activities of the Viceroy.
In the XVIII Century started the fall of this Viceroy because of the foundation of the
Viceroy of La Plata which absorbed the famous mines of Potosi.
In 1821 after intense political movements, the General Don Jose de San Martin, proclaims
the independence of Peru, starting from that moment the Republican era, until our days.
Today, Lima is a modern city, that has approximately the 20% of the total population of
the country.
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