Lima Region

Lima Region, also called the Department of Lima, is a department of Peru located on the central coast of the country. It is administered by a regional government based in Huacho, whose jurisdiction does not include the quasi-autonomous special regime of the province of Lima, which is coterminous with the national capital, Lima. The name comes from one of two sources: either the Aymara lima-limaq, meaning yellow flower, or the Spanish pronunciation of the Quechua word rimaq, meaning talker, which is also the source of the name of the Rímac River. On the northern coast of the region the first known civilization in the Americas, Caral, emerged around the 4th millennium BC. From 1784 to 1821 the area was administered as the Intendancy of Lima, and the town of Huaura hosted the first proclamation of the independence of Peru, made by José de San Martín on 27 November 1820.