The embassy of Argentina in Peru represents the permanent

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. It is located at 326 Las Flores Avenue, in

San Isidro District, Lima San Isidro is an upscale Districts of Peru, district of the Lima Province in Peru. It is located in the west center of the city, it has a few meters of coastline. Officially created on April 24, 1931, San Isidro, along with Orrantia and Country ...

, having previously operated at its traditional location from 1938 to 2012. The embassy operates a Consulate-General in

Santa Beatriz Santa Beatriz is a neighbourhood in Lima District. It is the southernmost area of the district. It limits to the north, with the historic centre of Lima; to the east, with La Victoria; to the south, with Lince; and to the west, with Jesús Mar ...

, a neighbourhood of

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. The current Argentine ambassador is Samuel Ortiz Basualdo.

History

Both countries established relations in 1822, with both countries having come into existence as a result of Argentine-born

José de San Martín José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (; 25 February 177817 August 1850), nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's succe ...

's campaigns in the River Plate and Lower Peru during the

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. The first Argentine representative to Peru was Estanislao Lynch. Relations have continued since, having been warm for the most part, with the exception of a

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during the

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in 1995. The embassy's traditional palace was built on land donated in 1921 by the

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on the occasion of the

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, located next to the

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in the neighbourhood of

. In response, the

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donated the premises currently occupied by the Embassy of Peru in

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, the work of the Argentine architect

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. The Palace was designed in a neo-colonial style by the Argentine architect in 1929 and built by the Construction Engineer Gonzalo Panizo, being inaugurated in 1938 by the then

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of Peru, , and the then Argentine Ambassador, Ricardo Colombres Mármol. From its inauguration and until 2012, it housed both the embassy and the ambassador's residence until the former moved to San Isidro. Due to its architectural and historical value, in October 2019 the building at Av. Arequipa 121 was declared an " Integrated Monument of the Cultural Heritage of the Nation" by the

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List of representatives

References

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Argentina–Peru relations Lima District San Isidro District, Lima

History

List of representatives

See also

References