Ate, also known as Ate-Vitarte, is a

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of the Lima Province in

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. Located in the eastern part of the province, it is one of the districts that comprise the city of

Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...

History

The ''Ate'' name is of Aymaran origin and denoted a local Native town, while the ''Vitarte'' name is a Castilian Spanish derivation of the Basque family name ''Ubitarte'', which were the original Spanish landowners in the surrounding area. The district of Ate was founded by express law on August 4, 1821 by General

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, a few days after Peru's declaration of independence. This law created the province of Lima and the districts into which it would be divided: Ancón, Ate, Carabayllo, Chorrillos, Lurigancho and Lima. It gained importance during the government of Marshal Ramón Castilla, who granted his lands, between 1855 and 1862, to the citizen Don Carlos López Aldana to protect the development of national industry. Carlos López Aldana founded the Vitarte Textile Factory in 1872 (later CUVISA), which led to the construction of houses for the workers and their families, who, upon settling down, formed the town of Vitarte. Meanwhile, new industries were being installed in the area, making it the main industrial center of Lima for the following decades. On February 13, 1951 with Law No. 11951, the district capital passed from the town of Ate to the town of Vitarte, which gave rise to the district being called "Ate Vitarte". Likewise, in the twentieth century a continuous dismemberment of what was the original territory of Ate began for the creation of other districts such as Chaclacayo in 1926, La Victoria (1920),

Santiago de Surco Santiago de Surco, commonly known simply as Surco, is a district of Lima, Peru. It is bordered on the north with the district of Ate Vitarte and La Molina; on the east with San Juan de Miraflores, on the west with San Borja, Surquillo, Mira ...

(1944) with which it loses its exit Sea, and in the 70s, Surco loses the sea border with the foundation of San Juan de Miraflores and Villa el Salvador; El Agustino (1960). San Luis (1960), La Molina (1962) and Santa Anita (1989). Since the 1980s, Vitarte has become one of the main receivers of provincial migration that, by now, had already taken over the traditional center of

. This resulted in the urbanization of Ate and its integration into the Urban Agglomerate, causing the loss of the agricultural territory that it originally had, as it was a riverside district to the

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. Currently it is configured as a peripheral district, with residential and commercial areas already consolidated in Mayorazgo and Salamanca de Monterrico.

Geography

The district has a total land

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of 77.72 km². Its administrative center is located 355 meters above

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Boundaries

* North: Lurigancho * East: Santa Anita, Chaclacayo,

Cieneguilla Cieneguilla is one of the 43 districts that make up the Lima Province. It is located in the easternmost area of the province and is one of the few districts left that is not already completely urbanized. Boundaries It borders on the east with ...

* South:

, La Molina, Pachacamac * West: San Borja, San Luis

Demographics

According to the 2007 census by the INEI, the district has 478,278 inhabitants and a population density of 6,154 persons/km². In 2005, there were 105,190 households in the district. It is the 13th most populated district in Lima.

Points of interest

* Stadium " Estadio Monumental de Universitario de Deportes", home of one of the most popular

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teams in Perú. * Puruchuco Archeological Site * Huaycan Archeological Site * Cahuide Park

References

External links

*
Official web site of the Ate district

Ate News
{{Districts of Lima and Callao Ate