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Mercedes Aráoz, Vice President of Peru, 2016–2020; Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, prime minister and President, 2016–18; Martín Vizcarra, governor, vice president and President of Peru, 2018–2020; Bruno Pacheco, former secretary of the President; José Manuel Valdés
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.
This is a list of notable people from Lima, Peru. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in Lima, or for whom Lima is a significant part of their identity, as well as music groups founded in Lima. This list is in alphabetical order.
Indigenous people hold title to substantial portions of Peru, primarily in the form of communal reserves (Spanish: reservas comunales). The largest Indigenous communal reserve in Peru belongs to the Matsés people and is located on the Peruvian border with Brazil on the Javary River.
According to the 2017 census, 3-10% of the population identifies as having either Chinese or Japanese heritage. Peru has the largest population of Chinese descendants in Latin America since Peru became independent from Spain in 1821 and banned the import of slaves. The first group of Asians came in 1849 on the Danish ship named Federico ...
This is a list of those who have served as President of the Republic of Peru (head of state and head of government of Peru) from its establishment to the present.The office was established by the 1822 Constituent Congress, after the resignation of José de San Martín to his position as Protector of Peru and his subsequent departure from the country.
Peru was completely under the rule of the Spanish colonialists from 1538 onwards, and it remained so amid protests and opposition throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [26] Spanish colonisation resulted in a different ethnicity in which Peru's indigenous people is by far the majority.
In November 2009, the Peruvian government issued an official apology to Peru's Afro-Peruvian people for centuries of racial injustice; it was the first such apology ever made by the government. [17] It was announced by Women's and Social Development Minister Nidia Vilchez, and initially published in the official newspaper El Peruano. [17]