Lima Adventure Tours

Lima, capital of Lima Province, is both the capital and the largest city in Peru. It is the cultural and economic hub of the country. Lima occupies the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac, and Lurín Rivers. It lies on a desertic coast overlooking the Bay of Lima in the Pacific Ocean. Founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535, Lima is known as the City of Kings. It became the most important city in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, an administrative area encompassing most of Spain’s possessions in South America during the colonial era (mid-1500s to early 1800s). For more than three centuries, Lima was the greatest metropolis in South America. Today nearly one-third of the nation’s population lives in this metropolitan area. Lima city proper is generally considered to be comprised of the densely-populated, thirty central districts of Lima Province. Each district is headed by a mayor, although the Metropolitan Lima Municipal Council (Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima), led by the mayor of Lima, also has authority in these districts, including the thirteen outer districts of Lima province.