In 1775, a second Spanish expedition under the Spanish Peruvian captain Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was sent.

In 1966 Hector Ladrón de Guevara ( Cututtu ) was the first Cienciano player to be named captain of the Peruvian national team.

* Horna is currently the Peruvian Davis Cup captain.

** José Luis Bustamante y Rivero, Peruvian politician, diplomat and jurist, former President ( b. 1894 )

Belaúnde's political career began in 1944 as cofounder of the National Democratic Front party which elected José Bustamante as President in 1945 ; he served in the Peruvian Congress until a coup by General Manuel Odría in 1948 interrupted democratic elections.

The party later formed an alliance with APRA and the Peruvian Communist Party, an alliance which led to the triumph of Dr. José Luis Bustamante y Rivero becoming president the same year.

* César Bustamante: ( Rickenbacker 4001S Bass guitar, 12-string guitar, Peruvian Percussion, Piano, Synthesisers, Korg MS-20, Organ, Mellotron, Arp OMNI, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards and Backing Vocals )

* 1879 – War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique ( then belonging to Peru ) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.

The exceptional 16th-century Brussels tapestry known as " To the birthwort ", both Gothic and Renaissance, is inspired by the discovery of the Americas, and their fauna and flora: it contains Peruvian silver pheasants, pineapples, orchids, pomegranates, animals and vegetables which until then were unknown in Europe.

In Peru, the squadrons of Hussars of the Peruvian Legion of the Guard were created in 1821 by General José de San Martín, from officers and troopers of the Squadron of " Hussars of the General's Escort ", the former Squadron of Horse-Chasseurs of the Andes, which were included in the newly created army of the then recently independent republic of Peru.

The conflict then became a guerrilla war engaging Peruvian army remnants and irregulars.

It was then adapted to a " Peruvian " version called " Chicha " that has become a popular style in the Andean region, specially among in the lower socioeconomic strata of the society including Quechua and Aymara populations.

To avoid coastal traffic it was initially towed 50 miles out by the Fleet Tug Guardian Rios of the Peruvian Navy, then sailed roughly west carried along on the Humboldt Current.

There were also attempts to restrict, then prohibit, trade between Peru and Mexico City in the late 16th and early 17th century, with the objective of keeping control of Peruvian silver.

The Ecuadorian high command had by then interpreted the failure of the Commander in Chief of the Peruvian armed forces, General Nicolás de Bari Hermoza, to respond to calls from his Ecuadorian counterpart as a signal that the Peruvian military, with or without the knowledge of Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, was preparing a military operation in the Cenepa valley.

Along with the Peruvian and Bolivian groups of the LRCI, it then formed the Liaison Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International ( CEMICOR ) in 1995.

Shortly afterwards it was engaged in the war against the Gran Colombia ( 1828 – 1829 ) during which it conducted a blockade against the seaport of Guayaquil and then helped with the occupation of this city by Peruvian forces.

During the viceroyalty of Peru the La Libertad region area with existing Lambayeque, Piura and Tumbes in Peru along with the capital of Guayas, Guayaquil and El Oro in Ecuador all was called the Intendencia de Trujillo for being the domain of the city of Trujillo, then was called Departamento de Trujillo and finally after joining the emancipation cause, and be the first to get its independence from Spain, and demonstrate their gallant and patriotic spirit, in 1825 congress of Peruvian republic changed the name to Departmento de la Libertad.

The Madre de Dios River, homonymous to the Peruvian region it runs through, flows into the Beni River in Bolivia, which then turns northward into Brazil, where it joins with the Mamore River to become the Madeira River.

In 1987, they proposed conducting a daily program ( the Peruvian version of Hello Susana ) which would name Alo Gisela " then became the queen of midday on Peruvian TV for several years during the late ' 80s and early ' 90s, with an average rating of 40 points.

Néstor Cerpa Cartolini ( August 14, 1953 in Lima – April 22, 1997 in Lima ) — sometimes known by the nom de guerre " Evaristo " — was a member, then leader of the Peruvian Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) terrorist movement.

Larry Kurlander, then a senior executive at Newmont, claimed the French President Jacques Chirac had sent a letter to then Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori asking him to intervene in the court case in favor of the French owned company.

Morote then became a specialist in the folklore of the Quechua-speaking native population of the Peruvian Andes and taught at the University of Cuzco.

From at least 1764, Peruvian aguardiente began to be called " Pisco " after its port of shipping ; the usage of the name " Pisco " on aguardiente then spread to Chile.

Argentine president Cristina Fernández and then Peruvian president Alan García toast with a Peruvian Pisco Sour.

On learning of Francisco Pizarro's murder in 1541, Valdivia had himself appointed governor of the territory by the council of the new city, and removed Chile from Peruvian control, acknowledging only the royal authority, an arrangement the Crown found acceptable.

Túpac Amaru II's rebellion was one of many indigenous Peruvian uprisings in the latter half of the 18th century, and its birth was marked by the capturing and killing of Tintan corregidor and governor Antonio de Arriaga on November 4, 1780.

There, the Spaniards placed the Peruvian governor Ramón Valle Riestra under arrest aboard the Resolución, occupied the islands with 400 Spanish marines, and raised the Spanish flag.

Chile acquired the Peruvian territory of Tarapacá, the disputed Bolivian department of Litoral ( cutting Bolivia off from the sea ), as well as temporary control over the Peruvian provinces of Tacna and Arica.

It ultimately led to the Chilean annexation of the Peruvian Tarapacá department and Arica province, as well as the Bolivian department of Litoral, leaving Bolivia as a landlocked country.

Based in the Rímac District, in the department of Lima, it plays in the professional league known as the Peruvian First Division.

The dish is essentially made in the central Peruvian Andes in three main regions: 1 ) the upper Huallaga valley, in Huánuco and Pasco vicinity, where it is made with pork and seasoned with chincho, a local herb ; 2 ) in the Mantaro valley and neighboring area around cities like Huancayo, Tarma and Jauja ; they use lamb and a different seasoning ; and 3 ) in several places of Ayacucho department.

His grandfather and all his original family were from the old Peruvian department of Tarapacá, which is now part of the Chilean territory.

It is spoken in the districts of Tupe and Catahuasi in the province of Yauyos, within the Peruvian department of Lima.

The son of a noble family from the central Southern Peruvian province of Lucanas located in the modern day department of Ayacucho ; He was direct descendent of the eminent indigenous conqueror and ruler Huaman-Chava-Ayauca Yarovilca-Huanuco, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala was a fluent speaker of several Quechua and Aru dialects, who probably learned the Spanish language as a child or adolescent.

Iquitos () is the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest and the capital of the of Loreto Region and Maynas Province.

Punchana is the capital of the Punchana District in the Maynas Province of the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru, in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle.

* Víctor Isla, Peruvian politician and a Congressman representing Loreto for the 2006-2011 term

* Nauta, an historically important urban center in the northeastern region of the Peruvian Amazon ( Loreto ).

The government agency " Contradrogas ", founded in 1996, facilitates coordination among Peruvian Government agencies working on counter-narcotics issues.

It was an offshoot of the Communist Party of Peru — Bandera Roja ( red flag ), which in turn split from the original Peruvian Communist Party, a derivation of the Peruvian Socialist Party founded by José Carlos Mariátegui in 1928.

Whoever considers the Peruvian empire, where arts and industry flourished under one of the wisest systems of government, which was founded by a stranger, must have very sanguine expectations of the southern continent, from whence it is more than probable Mango Capac, the first Inca, was derived, and must be convinced that the country, from whence Mango Capac introduced the comforts of civilized life, cannot fail of amply rewarding the fortunate people who shall bestow letters instead of quippos ( quipus ), and iron in place of more awkward substitutes.

Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre ( 22 February 1895 – 2 August 1979 ) was a Peruvian political leader who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA ) political movement.

This agreement proved to be unpopular among the Peruvian population, despite the treaty's ratification in 1928, because the treaty was signed in secret and it awarded Colombia a region that had been founded by Peruvians and that had a large Peruvian population living within its borders.

His ideas have been compared to the Catholic Liberation Theology movement founded in South America by Peruvian Gustavo Gutierrez and Brazilian Leonardo Boff.

The Peruvian Communist Party was founded with the name of Peruvian Socialist Party ( Partido Socialista del Perú ) by José Carlos Mariátegui, it is considered the first Communist Party of Peru.

It was founded on the site of an Inca settlement and was the first city founded by the Spanish in the Peruvian Amazon.

Portobelo was founded in 1597 by Spanish explorer Francisco Velarde y Mercado and quickly replaced Nombre de Dios as a Caribean port for Peruvian silver.

A club from Rímac ward, known as Sporting Tabaco founded in 1926 and originally belonging to the tobacco growers ' union, was already playing in the professional Peruvian First Division.

The paper was founded by Gustavo Mohme Llona, a former member of the Peruvian Congress.

It was founded in 1930 by Luciano Castillo Colonna, through a split in the Peruvian Communist Party.

Together with the neighbouring Colombian city of Leticia and the Peruvian city of Santa Rosa de Yavari, the urban area has more than 100, 000 residents spread along the Amazon river. The first Portuguese settlement in the area was founded in the 18th century as a military outpost.

Peruvian Revolutionary Nationalist Party ( in Spanish: Partido Nacionalista Revolucionario Peruano ) is a political party in Peru founded in 1957 by Guillermo Carnero Hocke.

Peruvian Communist Party-Red Flag ( in Spanish: Partido Comunista Peruano-Bandera Roja ), was a communist party in Peru founded in 1964 following a split in the Peruvian Communist Party.

It was founded in 1966 by a group of Peruvian Christian Democracy ( Democracia Social Cristiana ) dissidents, led by Luis Bedoya Reyes.

Communist Party of Peru-Red Fatherland ( in Spanish: Partido Comunista del Perú-Patria Roja ) is a political party in Peru founded in 1970, through a split in the Peruvian Communist Party-Red Flag.

It was founded as a broad front in 1977 by a group around Genaro Ledesma Izquieta, Socialist Workers Party, Peruvian Communist Party ( Red Flag ) and Revolutionary Marxist Workers Party.