page_title: Ancón District
section_title: Beach resort
hierarchical_section_title: Ancón District / Beach resort
caption_attribution_description: Ancon Apartments
context_page_description: Ancón is a district of northern Lima Province in Peru. It is a popular beach resort, visited every summer by thousands of people from Lima.
  Officially established as a district on October 29, 1874, the current mayor of Ancón is John Barrera Bernui. The district's postal code is 2.
context_section_description: Ancón used to be a deluxe upscale beach resort during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its sandy soil and dry atmosphere made it a welcome place for persons with pulmonary and bronchial affections. Besides the beach, in 1913, there was a tennis court, one or two hotels, and many cottages. The train trip from Desamparados station in downtown Lima took about an hour and a half through dry desert.
caption: Ancon Beach Resort
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