Lima
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Lima is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Peru. It is locatit in the valleys o the Chillón, Rímac an Lurín rivers, on a desert coast owerleukin the Paceefic Ocean. Thegither wi the seaport o Callao, it forms a contiguous urban aurie kent as the Lima Metropolitan Aurie. Wi a population fast approachin 9 million, Lima is the fift lairgest ceety in Latin Americae, efter Mexico Ceety, São Paulo, Buenos Aires an Rio de Janeiro. Lima haes been defined as a beta warld ceety.
Lima | |
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Lima, Peru | |
Eik-name(s): Ceety o Keengs | |
Motto(s): Hoc signum vere regum est
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Lima Province an Lima athin Peru | |
Coordinates: 12°2′36″S 77°1′42″W | |
Kintra | Peru |
Region | Lima Region |
Province | Lima Province |
Destricts | 43 destricts |
Govrenment | |
• Teep | Mayor–cooncil govrenment |
• Mayor | Jorge Muñoz (2019-2022) |
Area | |
• City | 2672.3 km2 (1,031.8 sq mi) |
• Urban | 800 km2 (300 sq mi) |
• Metro | 2819.3 km2 (1,088.5 sq mi) |
Elevation | 0–1548 m (0–5079 ft) |
Population (2016)[1] | |
• City | 10,852,210 |
• Density | 4,100/km2 (11,000/sq mi) |
• Metro | 9,752,000 |
• Metro density | 3,500/km2 (9,000/sq mi) |
• Demonym | Limean (Spaingie: Limeño/a) |
Time zone | UTC−5 (PET) |
Website | www.munlima.gob.pe |
Lima wis foondit bi Spaingie conquistador Francisco Pizarro on Januar 18, 1535, as La Ciudad de los Reyes, or "The Ceety o Keengs." It became the caipital an maist important ceety in the Spainyie Viceroyalty o Peru. Follaein the Peruvian War o Unthirldom, it became the caipital o the Republic o Peru. The day, aroond ane-third o the Peruvian population lives in the metropolitan aurie.