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Del Busto Duthurburu, José Antonio: La pacificación del Perú. Librería STUDIUM S.A., Lima, 1984. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Historia general del Perú o Segunda parte de los Comentarios Reales. Córdoba, 1617. Sánchez, Luis Alberto: La literatura peruana. Derrotero para una historia cultural del Perú, tomo I. Cuarta edición y definitiva.
The etymology of Peru: The word Peru may be derived from Birú, the name of a local ruler who lived near the Bay of San Miguel, Panama, in the early 16th century. [29] When his possessions were visited by Spanish explorers in 1522, they were the southernmost part of the New World yet known to Europeans. [ 30 ]
The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Arqueología Antropología e Historia del Perú, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the main square of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more than 100,000 ...
1 Peru celebrates Peruvian novelist Mario Varga Llosa's achievement in receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature. 2011 28 July Ollanta Humala is inaugurated, winning the presidency over Keiko Fujimori. 2016 28 July Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is inaugurated as President of Peru, prevailing over former President Alberto Fujimori's daughter, Keiko ...
The National Museum of Peruvian Culture (Spanish: Museo Nacional de la Cultura Peruana), formerly the National Archaeology Museum (Spanish: Museo de Arqueología Nacional), is a museum dedicated to Peruvian culture in Lima, Peru. [1]
This is a chart of cultural periods of Peru and the Andean Region developed by John Rowe and Edward Lanning and used by some archaeologists studying the area. An alternative dating system was developed by Luis Lumbreras and provides different dates for some archaeological finds.
[1] [2] A frieze at the Sechin Bajo site of the Casma/Sechin culture has been dated to 3600 BCE, the oldest monument found in Peru. [3] Norte Chico civilization (Also known as the Caral-Supe civilization, nearly from 3,500 BCE to 1,800 BCE)" [4] El Paraíso, Peru, a Late Preceramic cite in the Lima region (3500–1800 BC)
Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, located six kilometers south from Trujillo Peruvian architecture is a conjunction of European styles exposed to the influence of indigenous imagery. Two of the most well-known examples of the Early Colonial period are the Cathedral of Cusco and the Church of Santa Clara of Cuzco .