Alfredo_Benavides_Avenue

Alfredo Benavides Avenue

Alfredo Benavides Avenue

Avenue in Lima, Peru


Alfredo Benavides Avenue (Spanish: Avenida Alfredo Benavides) is one of the busiest avenues in the city of Lima, Peru. It runs for 55 blocks through the districts of Miraflores[1] and Santiago de Surco,[2] starting at the Bajada Balta and concluding at the eponymous bridge that crosses over the Pan-American Highway.

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History

The avenue is named after Juan Alfredo Benavides Fernández Cornejo (Islay; 1857 — Lima; 1907), founder of the Banco Internacional del Perú and veteran of the War of the Pacific. Originally a resident of the Jirón de la Unión, he traded his property for an estate in Miraflores, then in the outer limits of the city. The avenue runs through a former portion of his land, ceded by him to the district's municipality.[3]

It is among the busiest avenues in the city due to it housing major institutions, such as Ricardo Palma University, several financial institutions and a number of stations of the city's electric train and Metropolitano, as well as the access to the Pan-American Highway.[2] It also houses an 11-storey building that is incomplete since its construction in the 1980s.[4]

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References

  1. Chevarría, Fernando; Vera, Natalia. "Miraflores renace". El Comercio. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
  2. Rudolph, James (2005). "Avenida Benavides named for Banker and Early Miraflores Landowner". American and Canadian Association of Peru. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06.

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