Lima metropolitan area

Lima Metropolitan Area
Callao
Core city	Lima
Population  (estimated 2022)
• Total	11,804,609 UTC-5 (PET)

The Lima Metropolitan Area (Spanish: Área Metropolitana de Lima, also known as Lima Metropolitana) is an area formed by the

. The conurbation process started to be evident in the 1980s.

The metropolitan area is composed of five subregions. These are

.

History

. It would become the most important city in South America.

The city of Callao has also been highly important, as for hundreds of years it was the only port in all of the Viceroyalty of Peru (all of Spanish South America at the time) allowed to ship anything to the rest of the world. For hundreds of years, Lima and Callao were separated by a desert. This did not diminish the importance of the union between the two cities. It was not until the 19th century, that they were connected by a railroad. The metropolitan linkage between these two cities did not start until they both grew enough to, in essence, crash into each other.

Present day

In the present day, Lima is the most important metropolis in Peru and in the Andean region. The area's financial district is San Isidro. It is home to a large concentration of business centers, skyscrapers, and commerce. Miraflores and Barranco are two districts where the city's nightlife is mainly based in. Parts of the metropolis can be lively; music at night is common in some areas. Today different areas of the city have differing aspects and showcase variations in culture caused by varying times of settlement, differences in socio-economic level and immigration from other parts of Peru. The downtown area, unlike many downtowns in other major cities, is largely a historic district, and is home to many cathedrals and churches built during the Spanish colonial period.

In the latter half of the 20th century, the city has grown rapidly by migration from other

, where residents have found the better life they were searching for.

Geography

The

, Egypt. The Lima metropolitan area is informally divided into five areas, Northern Lima, Southern Lima, Eastern Lima, Centro Lima and Callao.

Transportation

Main article:

Public transport in Lima

Today, Lima and Callao have conurbanized to the point that only signs mark the borders. Hundreds of streets and highways link the two cities.

• Taxicabs
  vary in quality of service and price. Most can be simply stopped at any street, private taxi companies can be called to pick up passengers at a certain address. To improve the quality of taxis running in Lima, a new law was passed to prohibit importing used cars; thanks to this law, the city of Lima has ensured that taxis and other motorists drive increasingly new vehicles, thereby reducing smog.
• Bus

Numerous inter-urban bus companies offer transportation to other cities in Peru. Quality varies depending on the price, from luxury express buses to ill-maintained and crowded micros.

• Mass-transit
  systems:

Lima Metro Line 1

is being built by a consortium made up by two engineering and construction companies. It is estimated that construction will be complete by December 2010, with remaining work the electrification of the line. Siemens Engineering has responsibility for that portion. The first part of Line 1 must be completed in June 2011 and starts daily operations in July 2011.

• Air transport

Lima's main passenger gateway for national and international air travelers is

northwest from the center

).

Population distribution

% of the metro area's total population, sorted by district areas:

• Santa Rosa
  ): 26%
• Lima Este (Ate, Cieneguilla, Chaclacayo, El Agustino, La Molina, Lurigancho-Chosica San Juan de Lurigancho, San Luis, Santa Anita): 12%
• Villa el Salvador, Villa María del Triunfo
  ): 20%
• Central Lima (
  Pueblo Libre, San Miguel
  ): 11%
• Residential Lima (Jesús María, Magdalena del Mar, Miraflores, San Borja, San Isidro, Santiago de Surco, Surquillo): 19%
• Carmen de la Legua Reynoso, La Perla, La Punta, Ventanilla District
  ): 12%

Growth of the metropolitan area

The following maps show how the Lima/Callao metropolitan area has grown over the years. The first map shows the population in 1535, which is the year Lima was founded, and the last map shows the population in 2006.

Population of the Lima metropolitan area (1940–2017)
Sources: Population 1940,[4] 1961, 1972, 1981,[5] 1993, 2007[6] 2017[7]

Future as a megacity

The Lima metropolitan area has become an unofficial

Andean States

, the fourth in South America, the fifth in Latin America and the seventh in the Americas.

According to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Lima is currently a Beta + city, one subcategory away from being in the"Alpha" category.^[8]

See also

• List of metropolitan areas of Peru
• Lima
• Callao
• Peru
• Metropolitan area
• List of Latin American cities by population

References

1. ^ ".: REUNIS :. Repositorio Único Nacional de Información en Salud - Ministerio de Salud".
2. ^ Lima Metropolitana is formed by the Province of Lima and the Constitutional Province of Callao in accordance with D.S. N°011-72-PM as of April 25, 1972
3. ^ "Se implementarán en simultáneo". Metropolitan Municipality of Lima. El Comercio. 2012. Archived from the original on March 14, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
4. ^ Oswaldo Jave. "Las ciudad y la tuberculosis (page 9)" – via Scribd.
5. ^ "Cambios Demograficos Oportunidad – Asociación Peruana de Demografía y Población (APDP)" – via Scribd.
6. ^ Instituto Nacional De Estadistica E Informatica. "Censos Nacionales 2007:XI de población y VI de vivienda – Perfil Sociodemografico del Perú" (in Spanish) – via Scribd.
7. ^ "Perú: Perfil Sociodemográfico" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática: 214. August 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 10, 2023.
8. ^ "The World According to GaWC 2018". Globalization and World Cities Research Network. November 14, 2018. Archived from the original on November 14, 2018. Retrieved November 14, 2018.

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