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Juan Manuel López de Romaña y Fernández Pascua. María Josefa Alvizuri y Bustamante. Alma mater. King's College London. Eduardo López de Romaña y Alvizuri (19 March 1847 – 26 May 1912) served as the 32nd President of Peru from September 1899 to September 1903. [ 1] A member of the landowning elite, he was the first engineer to become ...
Sacsayhuamán (/ ˈsæksaɪˌwʌmən / SACK-sy-wuh-mən; Spanish pronunciation: [saksajwaˈman]) or Saqsaywaman (from Quechua Saqsaywaman pukara, pronounced [sɑqsajwaman], lit. 'fortress of the royal falcon or hawk ') [1][2][3] is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire.
Lima. Lima (/ ˈliːmə / LEE-mə; locally [ˈlima]), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (locally [sjuˈdat de los ˈreʝes], Spanish for "City of Kings "), is the capital and 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 the country ...
Peru is located on the central western coast of South America facing the Pacific Ocean. It lies wholly in the Southern Hemisphere, its northernmost extreme reaching to 1.8 minutes of latitude or about 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi) south of the equator, covers 1,285,216 km 2 (496,225 sq mi) of western South America.
History of Peru. The history of Peru spans 15 millennia, [1] extending back through several stages of cultural development along the country's desert coastline and in the Andes mountains. Peru's coast was home to the Norte Chico civilization, the oldest civilization in the Americas and one of the six cradles of civilization in the world.
Óscar José Ricardo Maúrtua de Romaña (born 7 February 1947) is a Peruvian diplomat and jurist who served as Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru from August 2021 to February 2022, under the presidency of Pedro Castillo. [1] He previously occupied the office under President Alejandro Toledo during the last of year of his presidency.
Machu Picchu[a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [9] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [10] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province [11] above the Sacred ...
History. Both countries formally established relations on October 10, 1939. [1] Peru severed its relations with the Kingdom of Romania as a result of World War II, but reestablished them at en embassy level with the Socialist Republic of Romania on November 9, 1968, after the 1968 Peruvian coup d'état and the establishment of Juan Velasco ...