Lima Region, also known as Lima Provincias, is one of twenty-five regions of Peru. Located in the central coast of the country, its capital is Huacho, although only provisionally as it has not yet been established which city will become the permanent regional capital.
Lima Province, which contains the city of Lima, the country's capital, is located on the western part of the Lima Region. However, this province is autonomous and not part of the region.
The region is bordered by the Ancash Region on the north, the Huánuco, Pasco and Junín on the east, the Huancavelica Region on the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean and the Lima Province on the west.
The region has a coastal and an Andean zone, and has a great diversity of natural regions: the Costa or Chala (0 to 500 meters above sea level) up to the Janca or Cordillera (over 4800 meters). The predominating regions are the Yunga (500 to 2300 meters above sea level) and Quechua (2300 to 3500 meters).
The Lima Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Área Metropolitana de Lima, also known as Gran Lima (Greater Lima) or Lima Metropolitana), is an area formed by the conurbation of the Peruvian cities of Lima (the nation's capital) and Callao.[1] It is the largest metropolitan area in Peru, among the ten largest in the Americas, and among the thirty largest in the world. The conurbation process started to be evident in the 1980s.
The city of Lima was founded on January 18, 1535. The port of Callao was founded similarly two years later. The city of Lima began when Francisco Pizarro declared it at what is known as the Epiphany. It was founded at the very center of the city, the Plaza Mayor. It would become the most important city in South America. The city of Callao also was destined the same fortune as being for hundreds of years the only port in all of the Viceroyalty of Peru (all of Spanish South America at the time) allowed to ship anything to the rest of the world. For hundreds of years Lima and Callao were separated by a desert. This however, did not diminish the importance of the union between the two cities. It was not until the 1800's that they were connected by a railroad. The metropolitan link between these two cities did not start until they both grew enough to in essence, crash into each other. |
