Jirón Apurímac

Jirón Apurímac

The street as seen from Jr. Azángaro
Part of	Damero de Pizarro
Namesake	Apurímac Department
From	Avenida Abancay
Major junctions	Jirón Lampa, Jirón Azángaro
To	Jirón Carabaya
Construction
Completion	1535

Jirón Apurímac is a street in the Damero de Pizarro, located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. The street starts at its intersection with Abancay Avenue, behind the Javier Alzamora Valdez Building, and continues until it reaches Jirón Carabaya.

The road that today constitutes the street was laid by Francisco Pizarro when he founded the city of Lima on January 18, 1535. In 1862, when a new urban nomenclature was adopted, the road was named jirón Apurímac, after the department of Apurímac. Prior to this renaming, each block (cuadra) had a unique name:^[1]

• Block 1: San Cristóbal, after a church of the same name that was destroyed in the earthquake of 1746. It is currently the Portal Pumacahua, also known as the Portal San Martín and is no longer part of the street but part of San Martín Square.^[2]
• Block 2: Cueva, after Alfonso de la Cueva y Ponce de León, who lived there.^[3]
• Block 3: Corazón de Jesús, after the church of the same name, the first church built with that dedication.^[4]
• Block 4: Chacarilla, where the College of Our Lady of Guadalupe was originally founded.^[5][6]

The street, in its intersection with the Jirón Azángaro, is the location of the Iglesia de los Huérfanos.^[7]

• Historic Centre of Lima

• Bromley Seminario, Juan (2019). Las viejas calles de Lima (PDF) (in Spanish). Lima: Metropolitan Municipality of Lima. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2023-12-20.