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Lima, is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. With a population of more than 9 million, Lima is the most populous metropolitan area of Peru and the second-largest city in the Americas, behind São Paulo.
Lima is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northwestern Ohio along Interstate 75 approximately 72 miles (116 km) north of Dayton, 78 miles (126 km) south-southwest of Toledo, and 63 mi (101 km) east-southeast of Fort Wayne.
The Viceroyalty of Peru was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of Spanish-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima. Peru was one of the two Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.
The Department of Lima is located in the central coast of the country, its regional seat is Huacho.
Adriana Lima is a Brazilian model and actress, best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1999 to 2018. She was the longest-running model and named "the most valuable Victoria's Secret Angel" in 2017. She is also known as a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics since 2003, and for her Super Bowl and Kia Motors commercials. At age 15, Lima won Ford's "Supermodel of Brazil" competition, and took second place the following year in the Ford "Supermodel of the World" competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City.
Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima is a former long-distance runner who specialised in marathons. While leading the marathon after 35 km at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he was attacked by a former Irish priest Cornelius "Neil" Horan. Following the incident he fell back from first to third place, winning the bronze medal. He was later awarded the Pierre de Coubertin medal for sportsmanship for that race. Horan was defrocked by the Catholic Church the following year in January 2005.
Lima Locomotive Works was an American firm that manufactured railroad locomotives from the 1870s through the 1950s. The company took the most distinctive part of its name from its main shop's location in Lima, Ohio. The shops were located between the Baltimore & Ohio's Cincinnati-Toledo main line and the Nickel Plate Road main line and shops.
José Desiderio Rodriguez Lima was a Dominican right-handed pitcher who spent thirteen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros (1997–2001), Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers (2004) and New York Mets (2006). His best year in the majors was 1999, when he won 21 games for the Astros and pitched in his only All-Star Game.
Lima Province is located in the central coast of Peru and is the only province in the country not belonging to any of the twenty-five regions. Its capital is Lima, which is also the nation's capital.
Lyte Funkie Ones (LFO) were an American pop and hip hop band consisting of vocalists Devin Lima, Brad Fischetti and Rich Cronin (1974–2010). Before Lima joined the group in 1999, the third member was Brian Gillis, who was with the group from its start in 1995; the group disbanded after Cronin's death in 2010 but briefly reunited in 2017 before Lima's own death a year later. Their single "Summer Girls" reached number 3 on the Billboard charts, and the band has sold over four million records worldwide.
Brian Pala Lima is a Samoan former rugby union player who was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame in 2011. He earned the nickname of "The Chiropractor" for his shuddering hits both on and off the pitch that supposedly rearranged the bones of the victim.
Carlos Alejandro Villanueva Martínez was a Peruvian footballer who played for Alianza Lima and the Peru national football team. He is considered one of the most important Alianza strikers in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Battle of Lima Site 85, also called Battle of Phou Pha Thi, was fought as part of a military campaign waged during the Vietnam War and Laotian Civil War by the North Vietnamese army and the Pathet Lao, against airmen of the United States Air Force's 1st Combat Evaluation Group, elements of the Royal Lao Army, Royal Thai Border Patrol Police, and the Central Intelligence Agency-led Hmong Clandestine Army. The battle was fought on Phou Pha Thi mountain in Houaphanh Province, Laos, on 10 March 1968, and derives its name from the mountaintop where it was fought or from the designation of a 700 feet (210 m) landing strip in the valley below, and was the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members during the Vietnam War.
Rodrigo José Lima dos Santos, known as Lima, is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a striker.
Jeff Lima is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who last played for the Canberra Raiders in the NRL. A New Zealand international representative prop, he previously played for the Wests Tigers, Melbourne Storm, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wigan Warriors and the Catalans Dragons in the Super League, as well as France's Elite One Championship for the Saint-Gaudens Bears.
The 2019 Pan American Games, officially the XVIII Pan American Games and commonly known as the Lima 2019 Pan-Am Games or Lima 2019, were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, was held in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019, with preliminary rounds in certain events having begun on July 24, 2019.
Leila Norma Eulalia Josefa Magistrado de Lima is a Filipino lawyer, human rights activist, politician, and law professor currently serving as a Senator of the Philippines since 2016. She was appointed by president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as Chairperson of the Philippine Commission on Human Rights in May 2008 and she served in the commission until June 30, 2010, when she was appointed by President Benigno S. Aquino III as the Philippines' Secretary of Justice.
Douglas Lima is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division of Bellator MMA, where he is a three-time and current Bellator Welterweight World Champion. He is also the former MFC Welterweight Champion. He is currently ranked the #6 Welterweight fighter in the world by MMA ranking site Fight Matrix. He holds notable victories over Rory MacDonald, Andrey Koreshkov (2x), Michael Page, and Lorenz Larkin.
Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima is a retired Brazilian diplomat. He was the ambassador of Brazil to the United Kingdom, the United States and to Italy and was also secretary general of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, before retiring in 2001, after forty-six years in the diplomatic service.
Augusto César Lima Brito is a Brazilian professional basketball player for San Pablo Burgos of the Liga ACB. He is 6'10" (2.08m) tall and he can play as either a power forward or a center. He is left handed, but at the age of ten, his parents forced him to learn to write and shoot with the right. He was born in Rio de Janeiro.
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- ↑ "Alcaldes de Lima" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2011.
| Preceded by Lizardo Alzamora Porras | Mayor of Lima 1975–1977 | Succeeded by Enrique Falconí Mejía |
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