Miraflores: A Quick Guide

A Quick ViewMIRAFLORES

WE ARE

One of the 43 districts of Lima, the capital of Perú.

Located 8.5 km from Lima’s main square.

79 m above the level of the sea.

OUR LIMITSN: San Isidro

E: Surquillo and Suco

W: Pacific Ocean

S: Barranco

SOME FACTSArea: 9,62 km2

85,000 hab(at 2007)

14 zones

779 blocks

33,783 houses(at 2007)

9604 comercial stores

OUR GREEN AREAS1’109,610 m2

73 parks

10 squares

2 sport centers

301,700.00 m2 of cliffs

WEATHER

12 - 30° C

All year

DEMOGRAPHY

37,823

47,242

WomenMen

At 2007

DEMOGRAPHY

99,71%Literacy

43%Economically active

population

40Average age

EDUCATION

128private schools

12pubic schools

ARTS AND CULTURE Miraflores is Lima’s center

of the Arts.

We’re always promoting expositions, interventions as “Music in your park”, poetry, and hosting places for people to express through the arts.

ARTS AND CULTURE Miraflores hosts most of the bookstores, theaters, galleries and coffee shops

in Lima.

Even a Book Fair takes place once a year in our

main park!

LITERATURE“Peru is for me (…) the corner of Diego Ferré and Colón, in Lima’s

Miraflores —we called it the Happy Neighborhood— where I exchanged short pants for long

trousers, smoked my first cigarette, learned to dance, fall in love, and open my heart to girls”.

Mario Vargas LlosaNobel Prize in Literature 2010,

Acceptance Speech

SPORTSWe have many places to practice sports, for youngs and elders too.

Parasailing, skate boarding and surf are some of the activities practiced

here.

HISTORYThe Huaca Pucllana, a great adobe

and clay pyramid located in Miraflores, served as an important

ceremonial and administrative center for the advancement of the Lima

Culture, a society which developed in the Peruvian Central Coast between the years of 200 AD and 700 AD.

HISTORY

The Battle of Miraflores occured on January 15, 1881 in our district. It was an important battle during the War of the

Pacific that was fought between Chile and the forces of Peru. Although, the chilean forces finally invaded Lima, mirafloreans

battled with courage defending the city.

BUILDING THE IDEAL CITY

BUILDING THE IDEAL CITY

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