The Marañón River (, ) rises about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, flows through a deeply-eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly direction, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5 degrees 36 ' southern latitude ; then it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the inland Andes, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows through the plains.

Pueblos jóvenes (, " young towns ") is the nickname given to the vast shanty towns that surround Lima and other cities of Peru.

The Lima Metropolitan Area (, also known as Lima Metropolitana ), is an area formed by the conurbation of the Peruvian cities of Lima ( the nation's capital ) and Callao.

Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (, PUCP ) is a private university in Lima, Peru.

The National University of Engineering (, UNI ) is a public engineering and science university located in the Rímac District of Lima, Peru.

* Lima, the Portuguese name of the Limia River

* Lima, Indiana, the original name of Howe, Indiana

* Lima, the code name for an Athlon 64 CPU core

The name has been adopted by a theatre group from Villa El Salvador, Lima, Peru, which works worldwide, raising issues involving social responsibility and involvement.

Patrick G. Goode of Montgomery County, special prosecuting attorney at that session, is given credit for having offered up the name of " Lima " ( capital of Peru and source of the quinine used to treat the malaria prevalent in the area of the Great Black Swamp ).

Patrick G. Goode of Montgomery County, special prosecuting attorney at that session, is given credit for having offered up the name of " Lima " ( capital of Peru and source of the quinine used to treat the malaria prevalent in the area of the Great Black Swamp ).

The name was changed in 1890 to Santa Rosa ( Spanish for " Holy Rose ") referring to a chapel that Don Celso Baca ( the founder of the city ) built and named after both his mother Rosa and Saint Rose of Lima.

In 1882, under the name Lima Machine Works, the industry built the first Shay-geared locomotive.

This resembles a traditional local name used dating back to the Hog Creek Shawnee community that existed between Lima and present Ada, prior to the Shawnee removal of 1831.

Lima is the name of multiple locations in the U. S. state of Wisconsin:

* Sandy Leah Lima, a Brazilian singer-songwriter with the stage name " Sandy "

Alto Perú is also the name of a shanty town area just outside Lima, Peru ( see Asociacion SOLAC ).

It could be a toponym for the city of Puruchuco ( near Lima ), or the name of the quipu keeper who made it, or its subject matter, or even a time designator.

In 1837, Ghirardelli moved to Uruguay, then in 1838 to Lima, Peru, and established a confectionery, and began using the Spanish equivalent of his Italian name, Domingo.

It stuck, and the mudlib and primary server ( Lima Bean ) carried the name.

The company took the most distinctive part of its name from its main shops location in Lima, Ohio.

A number of C & MA churches bear Simpson's name, as does Simpson University in Redding, California, the Albert B. Simpson school in Lima, Peru and the A.

Convento de San Francisco is the Spanish name for Saint Francis Monastery located in Lima, Peru at Ancash, south of Parque la Muralla and one block northeast from the Plaza Mayor.

In 1981, when Sheller-Globe Corporation, a diversified industrial conglomerate closed down its large Superior Coach Company bus factory in Lima, Ohio, three former managers created Mid Bus, manufacturing Superior's smallest Type A bus under the new " Superior by Mid Bus " brand name.

The press had initially speculated that Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros, the current foreign minister of Peru, would have been a likely " consensus " candidate in the new scenario, and on 12 April, the Lima daily Perú 21 gave the name of former transitional president Valentín Paniagua as another option.

His stage name was given by his mother, who was a devout of Allan Kardec's Spiritism and Lima Duarte was the last birthname given to her spiritual mentor.

Lima Duarte has a state park called Ibitipoca, which is situated in the district of the same name and is 25 km.

The name of the city has no connection to the famous Brazilian actor Lima Duarte, but was in homage to Conselheiro José Rodrigues de Lima Duarte, political leader from Barbacena, who in the nineteenth century was Minister of the Navy and a Senator of the Empire.

The PCC is a biennial event, and was held for the second time in Lima, Peru, in November 2010.

* 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego Almagro the younger.

* 1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.

The central coast is composed of regions like La Libertad, Ancash and Lima, having a spring-like climate for most of the year.

The reason is probably since Lima is located where the Humboldt current prevails, yet there are tropical sun rays above the clouds that create fog and since there is no passage of hot clouds from the Amazon to the coast, the climate is cooler that similar tropical latitudes.

Cambodia apart from the westernmost part is antipodal to the Andes and the coast, including Lima, with Ayacucho not far from Stung Treng, and Huancayo not far from the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.

Its economy is diversified although the commodity exports is important, the trade and industry are centralized in Lima but the agricultural exports have created development in all the regions.

The pro-market policies enacted by Fujimori, were continued by presidents Alejandro Toledo and Alan Garcia, While poverty of Lima is 18. 5 %, the national average is 30 %, while the unemployment rate is 6. 5 % and 54 % are employed formally.

Unemployment in Greater Lima is 9. 6 %, while for the rest of Peru is 10 %.

Peruvian Navy ( Marina de Guerra del Perú ) is organized in five naval zones headquartered in Piura, Lima, Arequipa, Iquitos and Pucallpa.

The Peruvian Air Force is divided into 6 wing areas, headquartered in Piura, Chiclayo, Lima, Arequipa, Rioja and Iquitos.

International maritime signal flags | Signal flag " Lima " called the " Yellow Jack " which when flown in harbor means ship is under quarantine.

The present flag used for the purpose is the " Lima " ( L ) flag, which is a mixture of yellow and black flags previously used.

* February 15 – The Alianza Lima Foundation is created in Peru.

* March 28 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.

* January 18 – Lima, Peru, is founded by Francisco Pizarro.

* Creation of the first fair in Portugal in Ponte de Lima, it is an early sign of the commercialization and economic development of a still backwardish and self-contained region.