Lima City Center

Since its foundation, Lima has spread steadily out from the Plaza Mayor - virtually all of the Río Rimac's alluvial soils have now been built on and even the sand dunes beyond are rapidly filling up with migrant settlers. When Pizarro arrived here he found a valley dominated by some four hundred temples and palaces, most of them pre-Inca, well spread out to either side of the river; the natives were apparently peaceful, living mostly by cultivating gardens, fishing from the ocean, or catching freshwater crayfish. As usual, Pizarro's choice for the site of this new Spanish town was influenced as much by politics as it was by geography: he founded Lima on the site of an existing palace belonging to Tauri Chusko, the local chief who had little choice but to give up his residence and move away.

LIMA INFO 2010
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