Alfredo Benavides Avenue () is one of the busiest avenues in the city of

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. It runs for 55 blocks through the districts of Miraflores and

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, starting at the Bajada Balta and concluding at the eponymous bridge that crosses over the

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History

The avenue is named after Juan Alfredo Benavides Fernández Cornejo (

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; 1857 —

; 1907), founder of the '' Banco Internacional del Perú'' and veteran of the

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. Originally a resident of the

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, he traded his property for an estate in Miraflores, then in the outer limits of the city. The avenue runs through a former portion of his land, ceded by him to the district's municipality. It is among the busiest avenues in the city due to it housing major institutions, such as

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, several financial institutions and a number of stations of the city's electric train and

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, as well as the access to the

. It also houses an 11-storey building that is incomplete since its construction in the 1980s.

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{{Lima streets Benavides, Alfredo

History

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