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Chacarilla Del Estanque
Chacarilla del Estanque, also known simply as Chacarilla, is a neighbourhood located in the districts of San Borja District, San Borja and Santiago de Surco, in Lima, Peru. An upper class area of both districts, it is located south of the Headquarters of the Peruvian Army and known for its commercial sector, most notably its Caminos del Inca Shopping Centre, shopping centre. History During the Viceroyalty of Peru, Spanish period, the area was an estate where a reservoir was built to water the area, as well as the neighbouring ''haciendas'', known as San Juan and Villa. The water was sourced from the Surco and Ate rivers, and its distribution, through which the estate's owners made a profit, gradually led to its current name. During the 17th century and until their expulsion in 1757, the estate was the property of the Jesuits, already known as ''Chacarilla del Estanque''. Under this order, it became an agricultural complex with fruit and olive trees. By the late 19th century, the pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headquarters Of The Peruvian Army
The building for the Headquarters of the Peruvian Army (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Cuartel General del Ejército del Perú''), known among locals as the Little Pentagon (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Pentagonito''), is a building complex located in the San Borja District of Lima that serves as the Headquarters of the Peruvian Army. History Background In January 1971, the then Commander General of the Army and Minister of War, Major General Ernesto Montagne Sánchez, made the decision that the new premises for the Army Headquarters should respond to functional and security conditions in a wide area which would allow it to centralize all the organizations of the War Sector, the High Command of the Army and its Support, Advisory and Service Bodies, which, at the time, found themselves dispersed. Planning and construction In April 1971, the land, then located in the Residential area, residential neighbourhood of Chacarilla del Estanque, in what was then part of the district of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Peruvian
Italian Peruvians (; ) are Peruvian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Peru during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Peru. Among European Peruvians, Italians were the second largest group of immigrants to settle in the country. Italian immigration in Peru began in the colonial era, during the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. However, the peak of Italian immigrants occurred after Peruvian independence, between 1840 and 1880, with the guano export boom. In the following years, from 1914 to 1950, waves of Italian immigration followed due to the two world wars, which destroyed most of the Italian cities, while other Italians arrived from Argentina and Brazil, mainly merchants, peasants and technicians, who then formed families in Peru, where they settled permanently. History Spanish colonial era The Italian community is characterized by having started since the times of the Spanish colony in Peru. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wong (supermarket)
Wong () is a supermarket chain in Peru. Known until 2005 as E. Wong, it was started as a small store in 1942 by Chinese Peruvians in a residential area of the Miraflores District in Lima. History and development In 1942, Erasmo Wong Chiang Moreno, a Chinese-Peruvian, opened a store at a corner on the tenth block of 2 de Mayo Avenue, in a residential area in San Isidro, a district of Lima. The family business was succeeded by a store operating under the name of "E. Wong" at an old house at the ''Óvalo Gutiérrez'', a roundabout in Miraflores, which opened in 1982. By 1990, five stores had been opened and two years later all the stores were expanded. In 1993, the company purchased two competing chains, ''Galax'' and ''Todos'', expanding again in 1995 and operating 15 stores by 1999 with the inauguration of another building in Las Gardenias neighbourhood in Santiago de Surco. In 2004 it opened its branch in Asia, considered the most expensive in the country. All stores operate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Velasco Alvarado
Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (June 16, 1910 – December 24, 1977) was a Peruvian Army general, general who served as the President of Peru after a successful 1968 Peruvian coup d'état, coup d'état against Fernando Belaúnde's presidency in 1968. Under his Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru, presidency, nationalism, as well as left-leaning policies that addressed Indigenous peoples of Peru, indigenous Peruvians, such as nationalization or Peruvian Agrarian Reform, agrarian reform were adopted. These policies were reversed after another Tacnazo, coup d'état in 1975 led by his Prime Minister, Francisco Morales Bermúdez. Velasco had a confrontational foreign policy towards the United States, as he pushed for renegotiation of treaties and criticized what he perceived as a pernicious dependence of Latin American states on the United States. While he strengthened Peruvian relations with the Soviet Union, Velasco was firmly anti-communist. His foreign policy h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peruvian Armed Forces
The Peruvian Armed Forces () are the military services of Peru, comprising independent Army, Navy and Air Force components. Their primary mission is to safeguard the country's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity against any threat. As a secondary mission they participate in economic and social development as well as in civil defence tasks. The National Police of Peru is often classified as a part of the armed forces. Although in fact it has a different organisation and a wholly civil mission, its training and activities over more than two decades as an anti-terrorist force have produced markedly military characteristics, giving it the appearance of a virtual fourth military service with significant land, sea and air capabilities and approximately 140,000 personnel. The Peruvian armed forces report through the Ministry of Defence, while the National Police of Peru report through the Ministry of Interior. History 19th century The Peruvian Army was officially e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Government Of The Armed Forces Of Peru
The Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces () was a military dictatorship that ruled Peru from 1968 to 1980 after a successful 1968 Peruvian coup d'état, coup d'état by the Armed Forces of Peru. Official Peruvian historiography refers to this period as that of Radical military reform (). The Revolutionary Junta, headed by Juan Velasco Alvarado, appointed him as the ''de facto'' leader of the government, which promoted revolutionary nationalism and left-wing politics, left-wing ideas that left a deep impact in the country. Among the policies promoted were the promulgation of Peruvian Agrarian Reform, agrarian reform, the official recognition of Quechuan languages, Quechua, an increase of worker's rights, and the empowerment of Trade union, workers' unions and Indigenous peoples of Peru, indigenous Peruvians. Other measures, however, such as the nationalization of natural resources and the expropriation of companies and the media, generated a Economy of Peru#Revolutionary Gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La República
''La República'' () is a Peruvian newspaper based in Lima, Peru. It is one of the two main national daily newspapers sold all over the country since it was founded on November 16, 1981. History Founding and early history The paper was founded in 1981 by Gustavo Mohme Llona, a former member of the Peruvian Congress. Peruvian journalist Guillermo Thorndike served as the newspaper's founding editor and had previous experience working for many newspapers in Peru. Under Mohme's leadership, the newspaper was against the candidacy of Mario Vargas Llosa in the 1990 Peruvian general election. Fujimori administration ''La República'' was also the main newspaper in opposition to the government of President Alberto Fujimori, who was in office from 1990 to 2000, reporting on illegal actions performed by the government, Peruvian Armed Forces and intelligence agencies. During his government, journalists from the newspaper faced violence and were placed under surveillance by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Comercio (Peru)
is a Peruvian newspaper based in Lima. Founded in 1839, it is the oldest newspaper in Peru and one of the oldest Spanish language, Spanish-language papers in the world. It has a daily circulation of more than 120,000. It is considered a newspaper of record and one of the most influential media in Peru. History 19th century ''El Comercio'' began as a commercial, political and literary newspaper. Its first publication was on Saturday, May 4, 1839 by José Manuel Amunátegui y Muñoz (Chile, — Lima ) and Alejandro Villota (Buenos Aires, — Paris, ). It was originally a one-sheet afternoon newspaper printed on both sides in tabloid format. The price of the first edition was one Spanish real, silver real. Its motto was "Order, freedom, knowledge." In total there were ten people who prepared the first issue. Printing was made on a handlebar "Scott" flatbed press, powered by a mule-driven winch. Its first headquarters was the Casa de la Pila, located at Calle del Arzobispo No. 147 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caminos Del Inca Avenue
Caminos del Inca Avenue () is a major avenue that crosses through the district of Santiago de Surco in Lima, Peru. It starts at its intersection with Angamos Avenue, and continues southbound until it reaches Tomás Marsano Avenue. History Its name comes from the fact that it follows one of the paths of the Inca road system, as do a number of major avenues. The path that it forms part of is the road that starts at Santa Ana Church, in Barrios Altos. Caminos del Inca Shopping Centre, located near the road's starting point, is named after the avenue. On September 25, 2001, , mayor of Surco, and the Spanish colony, with the presence of the King and Queen of Spain, inaugurated the Friendship Arch, a faithful copy of its predecessor, the Moorish Arch, located in the María Graña Ottone Friendship Park, in the avenue's intersection with Alfredo Benavides Avenue. See also *Inca road system The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and known as ''Qhapaq Ñan''Qhapaq=ric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square Metre
The square metre ( international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or square meter ( American spelling) is the unit of area in the International System of Units (SI) with symbol m2. It is the area of a square with sides one metre in length. Adding and subtracting SI prefixes creates multiples and submultiples; however, as the unit is exponentiated, the quantities grow exponentially by the corresponding power of 10. For example, 1 kilometre is 103 (one thousand) times the length of 1 metre, but 1 square kilometre is (103)2 (106, one million) times the area of 1 square metre, and 1 cubic kilometre is (103)3 (109, one billion) cubic metres. SI prefixes applied The square metre may be used with all SI prefixes used with the metre. Unicode characters Unicode has several characters used to represent metric area units, but these are for compatibility with East Asian character encodings and are meant to be used in new documents. * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapallo
Rapallo ( , , ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Genoa, in the Italy, Italian region of Liguria. As of 2017 it had 29,778 inhabitants. It lies on the Ligurian Sea coast, on the Tigullio Gulf, between Portofino and Chiavari, 25 kilometers east-south east of Genoa itself. The Parco Naturale Regionale di Portofino, encompassing the territory of six Ligurian communes, includes the Rapallo area. History The first settlement dates probably from the 8th century BC, although the findings have not clarified if it was Etruscan civilization, Etruscan or Megali Idea, Greek. The name of the city appears for the first time in a document from 964. In 1203, the Podestà of Rapallo was created, and the town became a Genoese dominion in 1229, remaining under that aegis until the Napoleonic Wars. Galleys from Rapallo took part to the Battle of Meloria (1284), Battle of Meloria of 1284. On 5 September 1494, it was captured by the Aragonese, but three days later 2,50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peruvian Civil War Of 1894–1895
The Peruvian Civil War of 1894–1895 was an internal conflict in Peru that lasted from October 1894 to March 1895, and was sparked by the election of Andrés Avelino Cáceres to the presidency of Peru, which was opposed by Nicolás de Piérola and his armed forces. The immediate cause of the conflict was the questioned 1894 Peruvian presidential election, election of Cáceres in 1894, carried out outside the constitutional framework, but the fundamental cause was the need to end the hegemony of the Constitutional Party (Peru), Constitutional (or Cacerist) Party, in power since 1886, and with the rise of militarism in the political scenario, the so-called National Reconstruction (Peru), Second Militarism. The revolutionaries or insurgents were known as pierolists, after their leader, or as coalitionists, since the parties opposing Cáceres that promoted the uprising had united in a self-named National Coalition. Their ranks were made up of Montoneros or guerrillas, who emerged in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
