What is Surquillo?

Distrito de Surquillo
Area	3.46 km
Population   - Total   - Density	99 144 (2002 estimate) 28 654.3/km
Mayor	Gustavo Sierra Ortiz
Established as a district	July 15, 1949

Surquillo is a district in Lima, Peru. It is bordered by the districts of San Isidro and San Borja on the north; by Miraflores on the south and west; and by Santiago de Surco on the east.

Due to its central position, Surquillo is a very commercially active district, havings several businesses, most of which are hardware and construction material shops. Some car selling companies as well as Corporación Graña y Montero, one of the largest Peruvian consulting companies, are located in the district.

Although Surquillo is completely surrounded by upscale districts, it is mostly a lower-middle class district. The old town area of Surquillo is known to be dangerous and tourists are discouraged from walking there alone, as it is rife with thieves and gang violence. Nonetheless, some parts of Surquillo's residential area have lower crime rates and a higher standard of living, such as Barrio medico or Conjunto habitacional Dammert Muelle.

Also found Residencial San Pedro (across the park or Morococha "Paul Harris") located in block 13 of jiron San Pedro, which consists of seven parts.

Surquillo appears on the map as the combination of one trapezoidal area and the area of a triangle pointing down, with Tomás Marsano Ave. as their divider. The trapezoidal area is the old-town district, made up of nearly evenly-spaced blocks, while the inverted triangle is the new district, made of mostly residential zones with curving streets and uneven spacing between blocks. In 1983, Surquillo lost more than half of its territory, as the district of San Borja was created in the northern part of the district.

Small pre-Inca ruins, as well as a defense bulwark called Trinchera Nº 3 and located in Avenida Angamos that was used by the Peruvian Army during the War of the Pacific against Chile, can be found in Surquillo.

Gastronomy

In its gastronomy surquillo is typical dish called "salchichaufa" it is the fusion of 2 chaufa rice dishes and salchipapa.

Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. The term Surface area is the summation of the areas of the exposed sides of an object.

Units

Units for measuring surface area include:

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Square kilometre (U.S. spelling: square kilometer), symbol km², is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of surface area, the square metre, one of the SI derived units. 1 km² is equal to:

• 1,000,000 m²
• 100 ha (hectare)

Conversely:

• 1 m² = 0.

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population is the collection of people or organisms of a particular species living in a given geographic area or mortality, and migration, though the field encompasses many dimensions of population change including the family (marriage and divorce), public health, work and the
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In physics, density is mass m per unit volume V—how heavy something is compared to its size. A small, heavy object, such as a rock or a lump of lead, is denser than a lighter object of the same size or a larger object of the same weight, such as pieces of
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A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "larger", "greater") is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer.

In many systems, the mayor is an elected politician who serves as chief executive and/or ceremonial official of many types of
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July 15 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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Lima

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Nickname: City of the Kings
Motto: Hoc signum vere regum est
Lima Province and Lima within Peru
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Country  Peru
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Anthem
Somos libres, seámoslo siempre   (Spanish)
"We are free, may we always be so"
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Area
Area
Elevation 11.1 km²
109 m
Population (as of the 2005 Census)
Population
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55 309 (2005 census)
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San Borja is a district in the Lima Province in Peru and one of the districts comprised by the city of Lima. Originally part of the district of Surquillo, it became officially established as a separate district on June 1, 1983.
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Area
Area
Elevation 9.62 km²

Population (as of the 2005 Census)
Population
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92,815 (2002 estimate)
9,648.1 people/km 
Mayor Manuel Masías
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Santiago de Surco, commonly known simply as Surco, is a district of Lima, Peru. It is bordered on the north by the districts of La Molina, Ate and San Borja; on the south by Chorrillos; on the east by La Molina, Villa María del Triunfo and San Juan de Miraflores; and on the
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Commerce is a division of trade or production which deals with the exchange of goods and services from producer to final consumer. It comprises the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, information or money between two or more entities.
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Hardware is a general term that refers to the physical artifacts of a technology.It may also mean the physical components of a computer system.

Hardware historically meant the metal parts and fittings that were used to make wooden products stronger, more functional, longer
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middle class, in colloquial usage, consists of those people who have a degree of economic independence, but not a great deal of social influence or power. The term often encompasses merchants and professionals, bureaucrats, and some farmers and skilled workers.
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A gang is a group of individuals that share a common identity, even if that identity consists of little more than their association with one another. In early English usage, it referred to a group of workmen, and later underwent pejoration.
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A residential area is a type of land use where the predominant use is housing. In areas that are zoned residential, buildings may include single family housing, multiple family housing such as (apartments, duplexes, townhomes (or similar configurations), condominiums) or mobile
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Crime rate is a measure of the rate of occurrence of crimes committed in a given area and time. Most commonly, crime rate is given as the number of crimes committed among a given number of persons. Often, the type of crime is exactly specified.
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The standard of living refers to the quality and quantity of goods and services available to people, and the way these goods and services are distributed within a population. It is generally measured by standards such as income inequality, poverty rate, real (i.e.
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trapezoid (in North America) or trapezium (in Britain and elsewhere) is a quadrilateral, which is defined as a shape with four sides, which has one set of parallel sides.
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A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a polygon with three corners or and three sides or edges which are straight line segments.

In Euclidean geometry any three non-collinear points determine a triangle and a unique plane, i.e.
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San Borja is a district in the Lima Province in Peru and one of the districts comprised by the city of Lima. Originally part of the district of Surquillo, it became officially established as a separate district on June 1, 1983.
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Inca Empire (or Inka Empire) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cuzco. The Inca Empire arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in early 13th century.
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War of the Pacific, sometimes called the Saltpeter War in reference to its original cause, was fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru, from 1879 to 1883.
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Por la Razón o la Fuerza
(Spanish: "By right or might")
Anthem
Himno Nacional de Chile
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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.
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history of Lima, the capital of Peru, began with its foundation by Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535. The city was established on the valley of the Rímac River in an area populated by the Ychsma polity.
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