What is Villa El Salvador?

Distrito de Villa el Salvador
Area	35.46 km
Population   - Total   - Density	330 143 (2002 estimate) 9310.3/km
Mayor	Jaime A. Zea
Established as a district	June 1, 1983

Villa El Salvador (VES) is an urban, largely residential district on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. It borders the district of Chorrillos on the east; the Pacific Ocean on the southwest; Lurín on the southeast; Villa María del Triunfo on the east and San Juan de Miraflores on the north.

It began as a shantytown in the vast, empty sand flats to the south of Lima in 1970 because of the urgent housing needs of immigrant families who had left the sierra of Peru. Villa El Salvador evolved into a huge urban zone, largely self-organizing, for which it won some fame. Largely through the efforts of its inhabitants, the neighborhood was supplied with electricity, water, and sewage.

Villa El Salvador served as the home base for the activist María Elena Moyano, who helped organize the Federación Popular de Mujeres de Villa El Salvador (Fepomuves), a federation of women, which grew to encompass activities such as public kitchens, health committees, the Vaso de Leche program (which supplied children with milk), income-generating projects, and committees for basic education. Moyano was killed by members of the Shining Path, which used Villa El Salvador as a base in Lima.

Since June 1, 1983, Villa El Salvador has been formally established as a district within the Lima Province.

In 1987, the community received a Prince of Asturias Award in recognition of its achievements.

Since 2006, Villa El Salvador is twinned with Tübingen, Germany.

External links

• Municipalidad de Villa El Salvador – Villa El Salvador district council official website (in Spanish)
• Friends of Villa El Salvador – history, maps, photographs, music, tourism, news, documents, bibliography, etc. (in Spanish)

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• 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus assassinated.

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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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Chorrillos is a district of the Lima Province in Peru and part of the city of Lima. It gets its name from the Spanish word for "trickle of water". The district was originally founded as San Pedro de los Chorrillos
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Villa María del Triunfo is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. It located in the Cono Sur area of the city of Lima. Officially established as a district on December 28, 1961, the current mayor (alcalde
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Population (as of the 2005 Census)
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 - Density
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Mayor Paulo Hernán Hinostroza Guzmán
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María Elena Moyano Delgado (29 November 1960 – February 15 1992) was a Peruvian community organizer and activist of Afro-Peruvian descent who was assassinated by the maoist Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) insurgent movement.
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• 193 - Roman Emperor Didius Julianus assassinated.

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Tübingen
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Anthem
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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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• Historical Center of Lima

Beaches and Waterfront

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