Lima

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 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.

 Etymology 
Accordin tae early Spaingie chronicles the Lima aurie wis ance cried Itchyma, efter its oreeginal inhabitants. Housomeivver, even afore the Inca occupation o the aurie in the 15t century, a famous oracle in the Rímac valley haed come to be kent bi visitors as limaq (limaq, pronoonced , which means "talker" in coastal Quechua). This oracle wis eventually destroyed bi the Spaingie an replacit wi a kirk, but the name persistit in the local leid, thus the chronicles shaw "Límac" replacin "Ychma" as the common name for the aurie.

 Internaitional relations 

 Twin touns — Sister ceeties 
Lima is twinned wi:Sister Cities International, Online Directory: Peru, Americas. Retrieved July 14, 2007.
  Arequipa, Peru
  Cusco, Peru
  Piura, Peru
  New York Ceety
  Los Angeles, Unitit States
  Austin, Unitit States, since 1981
  Cleveland, Unitit States
  Miami, Unitit States
  Stamford, Unitit States  Bordeaux, Fraunce. syne 1957
  Beijing, Cheenae, syne November 1983
  Manila, Philippines
  Madrid, Spain
  Mexico Ceety, Mexico
  São Paulo, Brazil
  Tegucigalpa, Honduras
  Akhisar, Turkey  Karaçoban, Turkey
  Buenos Aires, Argentinae
  Guadalajara, Mexico
  Montreal, Canadae
  Bogotá, Colombie
  Cairo, Egyp
  Cairdiff, United Kinrick
  Pescara, Italy
  Kiev, Ukraine

 References 


Category:Caipitals in Sooth Americae
Category:Populatit places in the Lima Region
Category:Populatit coastal places in Peru
Category:Populatit places established in 1535