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	Lima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lima is the capital and largest city in Peru, as well as the capital of Lima Province.
		Lima became the most important city in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, which encompassed nearly all of Spain's possessions in South America during the colonial era (mid 1500s to early 1800s).
		Lima city proper is generally considered to be comprised of the densely-populated, thirty central districts of Lima Province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lima,_Peru (2235 words)

	Lima Metropolitan Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Lima Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Área Metropolitana de Lima, also known as Gran Lima (Greater Lima) or Lima Metropolitana), is an area formed by the conurbation of the Peruvian cities of Lima (the nation's capital) and Callao.
		It is concentrated mainly in the coastal area and runs north-south along the Pacific coast for almost 200 km, beginning in the district of Ancón, on the border with the Huaral Province of the Lima region, and ending in the district of Pucusana, on the border with the Cañete Province, also in the Lima region.
		Lima is expected to become a megalopolis before the end of the decade.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lima_Metropolitan_Area (1109 words)

	Lima - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Lima Metropolis ranks among Latin America's largest and densest urban concentrations, with estimated populations (as of 2005) of 6.9 million for the urban area, 7.4 million for the entire province, and 8.2 million for the metropolitan areaINEI – Por AÑOS ESTIMACIONES Y PROYECCIONES (2005).
		However, political and economic instability during the latter half of the twentieth century created unprecedented poverty and violence in the Andean highlands, forcing hundreds of thousands of campesinos of full-blooded Amerindian descent to migrate to Lima, thus greatly augmenting the Lima's population.
		To improve the quality of taxis running in Lima, a new law has been released where its forbidden to import used cars; thanks to this law, the city of Lima ensure to always have new cars all over the city, reducing smog.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Lima,_Peru (2360 words)

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		Lima did manage to complete negotiations for an Extended Fund Facility with the IMF in June 1999, although it subsequently had to renegotiate the targets.
		Some examples of this Baroque period are the convent of San Francisco de Lima, the church of the CompaÃ±Ãa and the facade of the University of Cuzco and, overall, the churches of San AgustÃn and Santa Rosa of Arequipa, its more beautiful exponents.
		The southern Andean region is famous for the Huayno, a mestizo happy chant that involves Charango guitar, beautifully-toned lamenting vocals and sometimes the Andean Harp.
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		Its more significant act was the foundation of Lima in January, 1535, from which the political and administrative institutions were organized.
		The Lima Province is located in the central coast of the country, is unique in that it doesn't belong to any of the twenty-five regions.
		When the Spanish arrived, they divided Peru (because of political reasons) into three main regions: the Coastal region, which is bounded by the Pacific Ocean; the Highlands, that is located in the Andean Heights, and the Jungle, which is located on the Amazonian Jungle.
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		The Regional Environmental Assessment Report - REA promoted a review on the prioritization study, so as to promote some simulations considering other differentiated alternatives of consideration, taking into account the natural conflict of interests between the domestic use, irrigation and the aquaculture, and the main factors from the environmental point of view.
		Regional species PROGERIRH - Executive Environmental Summary 17/ 33 (all occurring in Ceara watersheds), acclimatized specles from other national watersheds and exotic species were utilized.
		The Or6s reservoir was accidentally infested because of the rupture of the screen that prevented the circulation of fish in the tunnel that connects Or6s to Lima Campos reservoir.
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	LIMA - Huacas at the South of Metrpolitana Lima - PERU
		LIMA - Huacas at the South of Metrpolitana Lima - PERU
		The discovery of a temple belonging to that period, known as the Templo Viejo or Old Temple, with a façade painted in red, was made by the notorious German archaeologist Max Uhle.
		To saunter about the place means to traverse over the history of the Valley of the Lurín River and of the Central Coast as well, through its burials and temples, and to became acquainted with the millenary communion of the ancient Peruvians with nature.
	www.enjoyperu.com /peru_travel_tours_information/peru_travel_destinations/peru_lima/lima-peru-archaeological-historical-sites-south-lima.html (590 words)

	LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
		Seventy percent of the population lives in the Andean region, but the plains to the East of the Andes have experienced a high rate of population immigration, partly because of recent discoveries of petroleum and natural gas there.
		In 1986 the value added generated by the agricultural sector fell for the third consecutive year due to a long drought in the northwestern region of the country, lack of inputs and machinery, and the destruction of rural infrastructure and population displacement as a result of the civil war.
		Three distinct regions have different ecological conditions: the arid Pacific coast, the elevated Andean region, and the region to the east of the Andes which is partly semi-arid but also includes rain forests.
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	Articles - Lima, Peru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Lima Metropolis ranks among Latin America´s largest urban concentrations, with a population of 8,866,160 in city and over 9 million in metro (2005 census), which features a very complex mix of racial and ethnic groups.
		The Lima city proper is comprised of thirty districts in the Lima Province.
		Commercial services in Lima have increased drastically since the mid-1990s, malls are starting to be built everywhere.
	www.izeez.com /articles/Lima,_Peru (2502 words)

	Facts about Peru
		It's capital and largest city is Lima, with an estimated population of over 8 milion people, which accounts for around one third of Peru's 27 milion population.
		The city of Lima is located in this province, which is also known as Lima Metropolitana (Metropolitan Lima).
		Peruvian regions are: Amazonas, Ancash, Apurímac, Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Callao, Cusco, Huancavelica, Huánuco, Ica, Junín, La Libertad, Lambayeque, Lima, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Moquegua, Pasco, Piura, Puno, San Martín, Tacna, Tumbes, and Ucayali.
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	Peruvian
		Lima was one of the two most important cities in Spain's empire in America, the other being Mexico City.
		The largest cities include Lima (the capital and the economic and cultural centre), Arequipa, Trujillo, Chiclayo, Callao (a suburb of Lima), Piura, Iquitos, Chimbote, Huancayo, Cusco (the capital of the ancient Inca Empire), Pucallpa, and Cajamarca.
		Lima is famous for the Señor de los Milagros Procession and Bullfighting, which takes place in Plaza de Toros Acho — the oldest bullfighting venue of the Americas.
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		Quechua, Aymara and other regional languages are also recognized in the areas where they are predominant.
		The southern Andean region is famous for the Huayno and Cusco for its Muliza.
		Lima is famous for the Señor de los Milagros Procession and Bullfighting, which takes place in Plaza de Toros Acho (the oldest bullfighting venue of the Americas).
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		Lima for example, is most well known musical style Peruvian Waltz known elsewhere as valse peruano and valsesito peruano.
		The Marinera or Zamacueca of the central coast Lima is the current National Dance of Peru, named in honour of the marines who fought against the Chilean military in the War of the Pacific.
		Among Peruvians of the coast, it is considered as traditional and representative as the Tango is to Argentina.
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		This view of the development of informality is reflected in De Soto's elaboration of a series of stages (10 for housing, 13 for trade, and 17 for transport) that mark "the steady advance of informal over formal society and the latter's corresponding retreat" (1989: 75).
		De Soto (1989) estimates that, in 1982, 42.6 percent of all housing in Lima was informal, providing shelter to 47 percent of the city's population.
		And in Lima, a detailed study of the informal sector put the number of informal entrepreneurs at 39,333 in 1983, representing 8.4 percent of the SIU and 3 percent of the metropolitan EAP (Carbonetto et al.
	www.etext.org /Politics/World.Systems/papers/working_papers:johns_hopkins_pcid/portes_informal (8815 words)

	ReVista - David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
		Greater Lima is growing at a rate of 1.7% after experiencing a 3.5% growth rate during the 1970s and 1980s.
		One reason for this lower growth rate is the tendency toward smaller families; another is the extensive international migration, estimated to have quadrupled from 500,000 Peruvians abroad in 1980 to 1,940,000 in1999.
		Clubs of migrants from the same region are some of the oldest types of these local organizations and are growing rapidly.
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	Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: Urban and Regional Planning
		The planning of cities and regions is a major enterprise throughout the world, pursued by members of a professional discipline along with thousands of volunteers engaged in the planning process.
		The institutional and management challenges of this socioeconomic transformation are the focus of the April 2005 conference at the University of Maryland organized by the University’s Institute for Global Chinese Affairs (IGCA) and Center for Smart Growth Research and Education and sp...
		Presented in collaboration with the Regional Plan Association and based on the handbook Redesigning the Edgeless City, this course introduces planning and policy advocates, city and state officials, developers, and citizen stakeholders to principles and techniques that can be applied in different metropolitan contexts.
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		Alicia ibbean Region; Anthony Pellegrini, Sector Director of Hetzner was editorial consultant for this volume, and Urban Development; and Nicholas Van Praag, Princi- Gaudencio Dizon was the desktop publisher.
		For example, in the case of droughts ticular regions of the world also plays an important and floods there is some scope for long-term forecast- role in determining the scale and nature of disaster ing to the extent that such events are linked to El Nifio mitigation and preparedness measures and, thus, sub- weather variations.
		Improved Latin American and Caribbean region, there is no predetermined technology provides both the means and the political impetus pattern as to the consequences of different disasters." to improve the quality and timeliness of warnings and to ensure that appropriate action is taken to minimize loss of lives.
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	Peru Regions
		Gavinha writes, "the area of each departamento was calculated by adding the corresponding provincial areas, and in a few cases the area of a few deserted islands on the Pacific (assigned to departamentos, but not to provincias)." Discrepancies may also be due to the transfer of certain provinces from one department to another.
		The regions are subdivided into provincias (provinces), which are further subdivided into partidos or distritos (districts).
		Province of Lima split from Lima region to form a province which is not part of any region, coextensive with the Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima (Metropolitan Municipality of Lima).
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	Fórum Internacional sobre Direitos Humanos e Direitos Sociais.
		Regional Coordinator of the project “Promoting the Governmental Protection on the Rights of the Child”, developed in Argentina, Nicaragua and Colombia by the Interamerican Institute of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica) with the financial support of the World Bank: 2000-2001.
		Regional consultant specialized in child labour and education.
		Main activities: technical support to the UNICEF national offices of the region on issues such as design of policies, proyects, evaluations, and advocacy with political authorities of the Latin American and Caribbean countries: 1995-1999.
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		In the low lands of the Amazon Jungle thousand of indigenuos population are dispersed around thousands of square miles of inexpugnable jungles, and 3 big cities (Iquitos, Puerto Maldonado and Pucallpa) with a population of almost one million and an area larger than the US states of Texas and West Virginia combined
		The "Marinera" (Mariner) is the national dance, set in honor of the brave marines who fight against the chilean military in the Pacific war from 1879 to 1883.
		This year Lima was declared the "Gastronomic Capital of Latin America" at the 2006 Madrid Fusion fair, one of the most important culinary events in Europe.
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	Participatory Impact Evaluation Methodologies for Urban Agriculture
		In Lima, the majority of institutions involved in UA are NGOs.
		In the case of Lima, the methodology is already being used by REDE in the implementation of a collaborative project with a German organisation and La Molina University (Peru).
		A majority of civil servants, researchers and development workers in the region are limited by the misconception that a gender-sensitive analysis signifies either a greater number of women participating in or directly benefiting from the project.
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	Global Reproductive Health Forum: Research Library: Gender, Biology, and Technology: Gender-Sensitive Budget ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For Women 2000 (Beijing +5) many of the governments from the region have prepared progress reports on their budget allocations for women’s programs and their fiscal commitments to implementing the Platform for Action, including funds allocated for national machineries.
		Section 8 summarizes the conclusions and lessons learned from the gender-sensitive budget exercises around the world and makes recommendations for the LAC region about the specific mechanisms that may be mobilized by governments, international donors, and local NGOs when launching gender budget initiatives in the region.
		This document was prepared for the Eighth Regional Conference on Women of Latin America and the Caribbean - Beijing +5, Lima, 8-10 February, 2000.
	www.hsph.harvard.edu /Organizations/healthnet/gender/docs/esim.html (9150 words)

	Preliminary bibliography of assessments and information sources of the Global International Waters Assessment (GIWA) ...
		IOC Sub-commission for the Carribbean and adjacent regions (IOCARIBE): http://ioc.unesco.org/iocaribe {1662}
		Regional Overview of Land-Based Sources of Pollution in the Wider Caribbean Region, CEP Technical Report No. 33, 1994.
		Regional Overview of Environmental Problems and Priorities Affecting the Coastal and Marine Resources of the Wider Caribbean, CEP Technical Report No. 2, 1989.
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		You’ll also visit Plaza de Armas, a picturesque square surrounded by the 18th century Cathedral Metropolitana and the central post office.
		Transfer to the airport for your flight to Lima.
		This afternoon, visit Plaza Mayor, the historical center of Lima with its Colonial treasures – the Presidential Palace, City Hall, and Archbishop’s Palace.
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	Session DP01 - Poster Session I.
		In the region of the 1-hole states, it was also found that only the 1\pi_u^-1 final state exhibits any significant increase in intensity.
		By varying the relative magnetic field values in the scattering and analysis regions, we expect to be able to measure the full DCS when both elastic and inelastic scattering are present.
		When the recurrence spectra are viewed globally as a function of scaled energy and scaled action, regions of clustered core-scattered combination recurrences are revealed, highlighting the importance of combination scattered orbits in the Stark spectrum.
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	sociology - Peru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Peru's territory is divided into 25 regions (Spanish: regiones; singular: región).
		Most of Peru's population (about 40% percent) lives in the Costa (coastal area), while 36% live in the Sierra and only 12% in the Amazon rainforest.
		Almost one third of the nation's population lives in the Lima and Callao Metropolitan Area.
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