Lima

Lima
Lima
	Lima, Peru
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	Eik-name(s): Ceety o Keengs
	Motto(s): Hoc signum vere regum est −
	Lima Province an Lima athin Peru
	Coordinates: 12°2′36″S 77°1′42″W / 12.04333°S 77.02833°WCoordinates: 12°2′36″S 77°1′42″W / 12.04333°S 77.02833°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)
• 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 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 [ˈlimɑq], 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.