The Metropolitan Municipality of Lima (Spanish: Municipalidad Metropolitana de Lima; MML) is the top-tier administrative and governing body of Lima, the capital and largest city of Peru. Governing both Lima Province and Lima District, it is the only provincial municipality under a special regime equal in status to a regional government.
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👉 Metropolitan Municipality of Lima in the context of Departments of Peru
The departments (Spanish: departamentos), informally called regions (Spanish: regiones), are the first-level administrative subdivisions of Peru. According to the Organic Law of Regional Governments, each department is administered by a regional government and a legislature responsible for administration, economic planning, and public services. These governments operate with autonomy while still coordinating with national authorities. Each department is led by a regional governor, who is elected by popular vote for a four-year term, and is responsible for implementing regional policies, managing budgets, and overseeing infrastructure projects. The governor is supported by a regional legislative council, composed of elected representatives from different provinces within the department. This council approves budgets, monitors public investments, and ensures government accountability.
There are 24 departments in total, as well as two provinces that operate under a special regime: Callao and Lima. The former does not belong to any department since 1836, but is nevertheless administered by a regional government of its own. The latter is administered by the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima, which is equal in status to a regional government.
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Metropolitan Municipality of Lima in the context of Department of Lima
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.
Metropolitan Municipality of Lima in the context of Regional Government of 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.