Huacho in the context of "Diocese of Huacho"

Lima (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlima]; Jaqaru: Nimaja, [niˈmaxa]) is a department of Peru. Located in the country's central coast, 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, coterminous with the country's capital, Lima.

The Regional Government of Lima (Spanish: Gobierno Regional de Lima; GORE Lima) is the regional government that represents the Department of Lima. It is the body with legal identity in public law and its own assets, which is in charge of the administration of nine provinces of the department (with the exception of the province of Lima, which is administered by the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima), on the central coast of Peru. Its purpose is the social, cultural and economic development of its constituency. It is based in the city of Huacho.

It is made up of the Regional Governor and the Regional Council.

Alfredo Augusto Torero Fernández de Córdova (September 10, 1930 in Huacho, Lima Region, Peru – June 19, 2004 in Valencia, Spain) was a Peruvian anthropologist and linguist.

He was a student at the National University of San Marcos, from which he graduated in the early 1960s, and then traveled to France, where he continued his doctorate at the University of Paris. There he obtained a doctorate in 1965, under the direction of the linguist André Martinet, with his thesis Le puquina, la troisième langue générale du Pérou.