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Type: City with 9,990,000 residents. Description: capital and largest city of Peru. Categories: big city, geographical feature, megacity, largest city, capital city and locality. Location: Lima Province, Central Coast, Peru, South America. View on OpenStreetMap.
Coordinates: 12°03′36″S 77°02′15″W. Lima ( / ˈliːmə / LEE-mə; locally [ˈlima] ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes ( locally [sjuˈðað ðe los ˈreʝes], Spanish for "City of Kings "), is the capital and largest city of Peru.
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Lima, city, capital of Peru. It is the country’s commercial and industrial centre. Central Lima is located at an elevation of 512 feet (156 metres) on the south bank of the Rímac River, about 8 miles (13 km) inland from the Pacific Ocean port of Callao, and has an area of 27 square miles (70 square km). Its name is a corruption of the Quechua name ...
Perhaps the best clue to the significance of Lima to the country of Peru can be found in its most popular nickname: El Pulpo (“The Octopus”). Metropolitan Lima’s huge size—it accounts for about one-fourth of the total population of Peru—has both resulted from and stimulated the concentration of people, capital, political influence, and social innovations. Lima’s unique status is but one of the more important consequences of a highly centralized, unitary state that from its inception in the early 19th century solved interregional conflicts by focusing power and prestige on the city. With its port of Callao and its location at the centre of Peru’s Pacific coast, Lima was long the only point of contact between the country and the outside world.
As with many sprawling and rapidly growing metropolitan centres, Lima has its detractors as well as its promoters. Those who remember the more tranquil, traditional days, before the arrival of millions of migrants and before the many buses and automobiles brought pollution and congestion, are prone to use another nickname for the capital: Lima la Horrible. This is the noisy, dirty, gloomy, damp, and depressing Lima, perceptions shared by both short-term visitors and longtime residents. Even though sunshine does break through the dense coastal fog in the summer, Lima then becomes unbearably hot as well as humid, and the sunshine seems to emphasize even more clearly the grimy buildings and lack of greenery in the central city.
May 17, 2022 · Find online maps of Lima, the capital and largest city of Peru, with its regions, population, and main sights. Explore the location, size, and features of Lima and other cities and countries on the world map.
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Explore the geographic and demographic data of Lima, Peru, with interactive maps and charts. ArcGIS Lima Peru is a web application that showcases the capabilities of ArcGIS Online.
