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El Ángel Cemetery
El Ángel Cemetery is a cemetery located on the 17th block of Jirón Áncash, in Barrios Altos, between the districts of Lima and El Agustino, in the city of Lima, Peru. It was inaugurated by President Manuel Prado Ugarteche on June 27, 1959, due to the need of the city of Lima to have a new funerary space, since the capacity of the Presbítero Matías Maestro Cemetery had reached its maximum in 1955. It is owned and managed by the Charity of Lima. History Its construction began in June 1956 at the initiative of President Manuel A. Odría. It was erected on the location of the ''Ancieta Alta'' farm in front of the ''Ángel de la Resurrección'' square, named after a statue placed there in 1877. The first person buried was the former mayor of La Victoria and councilor of Lima, Juan Luis Uccelli Rainusso, on July 3, 1959. The entrance doorway of the El Ángel cemetery has a large pictorial mural by the Peruvian artist Fernando de Szyszlo, and a sculpture by Joaquín Roca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrios Altos
Lima is a district of Lima Province in Peru. Lima district is the oldest in Lima Province and as such, vestiges of the city's colonial era remain today in the historic centre of Lima, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988 and contains the foundational area known as Cercado de Lima ( Spanish: "Walled Lima"). Geography The district has a total land area of 21.98 km². Its administrative center is located at 154 meters above sea level. Boundaries * North: The Rímac River marks the district's border with the San Martín de Porres and Rímac districts. * East: El Agustino and San Juan de Lurigancho. * South: La Victoria, Lince, Jesús María, Breña and Pueblo Libre. * West: San Miguel District; and the Callao Region districts of Bellavista, Callao and Carmen de la Legua Reynoso. Demographics According to a 2005 estimate by the INEI, the district has 278,804 inhabitants and a population density of 15,736.9 persons/km². In 1999, there were 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peruvian State
{{unreferenced, date=January 2014 The Peruvian State, which is conceptually the Peruvian nation legally organized, is the entity that holds the government in the Republic of Peru. The state's structure is defined in the Constitution of Peru approved by referendum and promulgated in late 1993 and in force since January 1, 1994. ''Article No. 43'' "The Republic of Peru is democratic, social, independent and sovereign." "The State is one and indivisible." "The government is unitary, representative and decentralized, and is organized according to the principle of separation of powers." Constitution of Peru The Constitution states that the Republic of Peru is democratic, social, independent and sovereign. The government is unitary, representative and organized according to the principle of separation of powers is vested in a unitary state. Structure Central Government It is formed by the executive, legislative, judicial branches and autonomous constitutional agencies. Executive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Codesido
Julia Manuela Codesido Estenós (5 August 1883, Lima – 8 May 1979, Lima) was a Peruvian painter, one of the most significant representatives of the Peruvian plastic movement, popularly known as “indigenismo”. Life Julia Codesido was born in Lima on 5 August 1883. She was a daughter of the jurist and diplomat Bernardino Codesido Oyaque and Matilde Estenós Carreño. Codesido spent her childhood accompanied by her older sister Matilde and her younger brother Bernardino José. She studied at the Colegio San Pedro, located in the center of Lima, and finished her studies in 1899. Codesido traveled to Europe with her family at age of seventeen, where she visited Switzerland, Spain, England and France; the last two due to the appointment of her father as consul of Peru. During her stay in Europe, which coincided with the so-called "Belle Époque", Julia Codesido had her first inclinations for art. She made her first formal art practice in the workshop of Teófilo Castillo at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis E
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a derivat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Banchero Rossi
Luis Banchero Rossi ( Tacna; — Chaclacayo; ) was an important Peruvian businessman dedicated to the export of fishmeal and fish oil, who became one of the main promoters of the Peruvian fishing industry until his murder. Early life Banchero was born into a family of low-income Italian immigrants. He finished his high school studies at the ''Colegio Nacional de Varones'' (today the ''I. E. E. Coronel Bolognesi'') in Tacna and graduated as a chemical engineer at the National University of Trujillo. He began to amass his fortune as a seller of countless products: wines from his father's small winery, socks, records, cars, tractors, shipments of pineapples from Trujillo to Tacna. Later, he sold alcohol and motor oil. This is how he discovered the city of Chimbote, when it was not yet the industrial zone that he helped create. Career In 1955, with business profits, he bought his first canned fish factory and named it ''Florida''. By then, he already had a net worth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucha Reyes (Peruvian Singer)
Lucila J. Sarsines Reyes (July 19, 1936 – October 31, 1973), was a Peruvian performer and one of the most respected singers of her country, one of Peru's most famous Afro-Peruvian personalities as well as a symbol of Peruvian nationalism both in Peru and to expatriates. She was also known by the pseudonyms "La Morena de Oro del Perú", given to her by Augusto Ferrando, and "La Reina de la Popularidad". She is well known for her voice and her music has gone through history as some of the best in the history of Peruvian music. History Born to a poor family in the capital, Lima, Reyes was one of sixteen siblings. Her father, Tobias Sarsines, died after she turned six months old. Reyes spent much of her childhood living away from her immediate family. She sold newspapers and lottery tickets to survive. Her house burned down, and she went on to live at a Catholic church. As a child, Reyes met Pitito Perez, a famous Peruvian singer of the era. Perez liked her voice and invited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María Arguedas
José María Arguedas Altamirano (18 January 1911 – 2 December 1969) was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of Spanish descent, fluent in the Native Quechua language, gained by living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11 - first in the Indigenous servant quarters of his step-mother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an Indigenous family approved by his father - who wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua. Generally remembered as one of the most notable figures of 20th-century Peruvian literature, Arguedas is especially recognized for his intimate portrayals of Indigenous Andean culture. Key in his desire to depict Indigenous expression and perspective more authentically was his creation of a new language that blended Spanish and Quechua and premiered in his debut novel '' Yawar Fiesta''. Despite a dearth of translations into English, the critic Martin Seymour-Smith has dubbed Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermilio Valdizán
Hermilio Valdizán (November 20, 1885 – December 25, 1929) was a Peruvian physician who specialized in psychiatry. Works written * Crime in Peru (1909), a well-documented essay which studies the various factors of crime in social groups in Peru, mainly in the Indian race. * Sexual perversions in the early Peruvians (1911) * Medical problems of marriage (1912) *Psychiatry in Peru (1912) *A Psichiatra of secolo XVI (1913) *The art of the barber (1913) *Martin de Porres surgeon (1913) *From the past... (1914) *Locos of the colony (1919) *Peruvian folk medicine (1922, in three volumes, in collaboration with Angel Maldonado). *Sick Story (1923), narrative work. *A collection of the works of Dr. Jose Casimiro Ulloa, in two volumes (1924-1925). *Peruvian Medical Dictionary in six volumes, the first volume being published in 1923. The second volume appeared in 1938, and the rest of the work was published in installments in the Annals of the Faculty of Medicine since 1957. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Pease (Peruvian Politician)
Henry Gustavo Pease García, known as Henry Pease, (11 December 1944 – 9 August 2014) was a Peruvian politician and a former Congressman. He ran for President under the United Left in the 1990 general elections but placed fourth with 8.2% of the popular vote and failed to qualify for the run-off. Biography Pease was born on 11 December 1944 in Lima. He ran for President under the United Left in the 1990 general elections but placed fourth with 8.2% of the popular vote and failed to qualify for the run-off which was eventually won by Alberto Fujimori. Two years later, he was elected as a Congressman in the Democratic Constituent Congress and three years later in 1995 in the Congress of the Republic and served until 2006. In the general elections of 2000, he was a candidate for the 1st Vice Presidency on the presidential roster of Máximo San Román for Union for Peru, however, said roster did not pass to the runoff and Pease was only re-elected Congressman for the parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consuelo Gonzales Posada
María Consuelo Gonzáles-Posada Arriola de Velasco (June 18, 1920 – September 7, 2012) was a socialite and First Lady of Peru, as the wife of General Juan Velasco Alvarado, between October 3, 1968, and August 29, 1975, in the so-called Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru. Biography Gonzáles was the daughter of the lawyer and American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, APRA militant Carlos Gonzáles Posada and María Herminia Arriola Vásquez. She was a sister on the paternal side of the Aprista politician Luis Gonzales Posada. Together with her sister, the future congresswoman Bertha Gonzáles Posada, they were known by the Peruvian social press as "the Gonzáles", she was nicknamed the "Chola" and her sister the "Coca". First Lady As first lady of Peru, she acted as the president of the National Assistance Board (, JAN), working to assist the victims of the 1970 1970 Ancash earthquake, earthquake and 1970 Huascarán debris avalanche, avalanche in Yungay, Peru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |