El Ángel Cemetery is a

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located on the 17th block of

Jirón Áncash Jirón Áncash is a major street in the Damero de Pizarro, located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. The street starts at its intersection with the Jirón de la Unión at the Puente de Piedra, and continues until it reaches the Óvalo de la Pa ...

, in

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, between the districts of

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and

El Agustino El Agustino is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. It is part of city of Lima. Officially established as a district on January 6, 1965. The current mayor (''alcalde'') of El Agustino is Richard Robert Soria Fuerte. The district's postal code ...

, in the city of

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. It was inaugurated by President

Manuel Prado Ugarteche Manuel Carlos Prado y Ugarteche (21 April 1889 – 15 August 1967) was a Peruvian politician and banker who served twice as president of Peru. Son of former President Mariano Ignacio Prado, he was born in Lima and served as the nation's 43rd ...

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 Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti (26 November 1896 – 18 February 1974) was a military officer who served as the 45th President of Peru. He ousted President José Luis Bustamante y Rivero in the 1948 Peruvian coup d'état and seized power. He pr ...

. 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 Rey. The work was designed by the architects

Luis Miró Quesada Garland Luis Jose Antonio Miró Quesada Garland (1914-1994) was a Peruvian architect, professor, essay writer, art critic and a promoter of modern architecture in Peru. He played an important part in the process of change in Lima, from a society rooted i ...

and Simón Ortiz, from the works section of Public Charity. In the project you could see the three parts into which the necropolis would be divided, which would have a capacity of 80,000 tombs. It currently has 640 pavilions, some of them built in quartz and marble, most of them are made of reinforced concrete, and they rest around 600,000 bodies. It consists of three pedestrian entrances: the main one, from the Áncash jirón, the Plácido Jiménez avenue, belonging to the El Agustino district, and the one from the Locumba jirón, where it has a parking lot. The crematorium was inaugurated on July 25, 2000. It is the only crematorium located in the city of Lima that does not belong to a private company. It comprises an area of 400 m². Although the orientation of this pantheon is more of a popular nature, due to the existence in recent decades of private cemeteries located on the outskirts of the city. Currently, at the top of its capacity, 10,000 new niches are being built. The owner of these tombs is the

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after 10 years after the burial, and the niche can be used again.

Notable burials

Abelardo Gamarra Rondó Abelardo Gamarra Rondó (August 31, 1852 – July 9, 1924) was a Peruvian writer, composer and journalist. he gave the name of Marinera, a typical dance in Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South Americ ...

(1852-1924, writer) *Akira Kato (1933-1982, trainer) *Armando Villanueva (1915-2013, politician) * (1919-1999, entertainer) *

Chabuca Granda María Isabel Granda Larco (3 September 1920 – 8 March 1983), better known as Chabuca Granda, was a Peruvian singer and composer. She created and interpreted a vast number of Creole Waltz, Criollo waltzes with Afro-Peruvian rhythms. Granda's " ...

(1920-1983, singer) * Lorenzo Palacios (1950-1994, singer) and his son *

Juan Velasco Alvarado Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (June 16, 1910 – December 24, 1977) was a Peruvian Army general, general who served as the President of Peru after a successful 1968 Peruvian coup d'état, coup d'état against Fernando Belaúnde's presidency ...

(1910-1977, president) * Consuelo Gonzales Posada (1920-2012, first lady) * (1935-1987, musician) *Ángel Bagni Stella (1932-2004, musician) * Henry Pease (1944-2014, politician) * Hermilio Valdizán (1885-1929, writer) *

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 mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas’ ...

(1911-1969, writer; cenotaph) * (1954-1986, singer) * Lucha Reyes (1936-1973, singer) *

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 ...

(1929-1972, businessman) * Luis E. Valcárcel (1891-1989, writer) * (1900-1963, politician) * (1922-1998, singer) * Julia Codesido (1883-1979, artist) * (1967-1987, sportsman) * Víctor A. Gil (1928-1975, singer) *

Martín Adán Martín Adán (Lima, October 27, 1908 - January 29, 1985), pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was a Peruvian poet whose body of work is notable for its hermeticism and metaphysics, metaphysical depth. From a very young age Adán demonstr ...

(1908-1985, poet) * Pedro Huilca Tecse (1949-1992, syndicalist) *

Ramiro Prialé Ramiro Abelardo Prialé Prialé (January 6, 1904 – February 27, 1988) was a Peruvian politician. A member of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, he was a friend of Víctor Raúl Haya De La Torre. He served as the President of the Congr ...

(1904-1988, politician) * (1919-1991, singer) *

Rebeca Carrión Cachot Rebeca Carrión Cachot (18 December 1907 – 6 April 1960) was a Peruvian archaeologist, historian and teacher, who had studied under Julio César Tello. She contributed significantly to the scientific research of various pre-Columbian culture ...

(1907-1960, archaeologist) *Leonidas Carbajal (1922-2002, entertainer) *

Ricardo de Jaxa Malachowski Ryszard Jaxa-Małachowski Kulisicz (Odessa, — Lima, ), later known as Ricardo de Jaxa Małachowski, was a Polish-Peruvian architect, active in Peru for nearly all of his professional career. He was one of the major architects of the capital ci ...

(1887-1972, architect) * Sebastián Salazar Bondy (1924-1965, writer) * (1953-1987, singer) * Zenón Noriega (1900-1957, interim president) *Isidoro Berrocal Coronado (1937-1984, singer) * (1945-1982, actor) * David Chaparro Pareja (1875-1963, jurist) * (1925-1962, convicted felon) * Eusebio Grados (1964-2020, singer) *

Gustavo Gutiérrez Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz (8 June 1928 – 22 October 2024) was a Peruvian philosopher, Catholic theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of liberation theology in Latin America. His 1971 book '' A Theology of Lib ...

(1928-2024), Catholic priest) Also among the buried in the cemetery are the victims of various fateful events in the last decades of the twentieth century. These include the eight journalist victims of the and the victims of the 1987 Alianza Lima plane crash, as well as the unidentified victims of the December 29, 2001 Mesa Redonda fire.

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Notable burials

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