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| | ACAP - The American and Canadian Association of Peru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | One of Lima's main streets, Javier Prado, was named for Javier Prado y Ugarteche, a philosopher, professor, diplomat, and writer, who was a member of one of Lima's most aristocratic and cultured families. |
 | | Javier Prado was the son of Magdalena Ugarteche and Gen. Mariano Ignacio Prado, who was president of Peru from 1865-68 and 1876-79 during the war with Chile, and the brother of Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, president of Peru from 1939-45 during the conflict with Ecuador and again from 1956-62. |
 | | Prado also had a valuable library of more than 40,000 books containing priceless first editions and manuscripts, which was located in the family's summer home built by his father in Chorrillos, and a private museum with prehispanic, colonial and republican artifacts. |
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