Arequipa (per)

Arequipa

Arequipa ranks 1,468th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Évreux, Huntington, New York, and Nantong. Memorable people born in Arequipa include Mario Vargas Llosa, Alex Olmedo, and Hernando de Soto Polar. Memorable people who died in Arequipa include Manuel Candamo. Arequipa has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many politicians. Arequipa is located in Peru.

Arequipa, also known by its nicknames of Ciudad Blanca and León del Sur, is a city in Peru and the capital of the eponymous province and department. It is the seat of the Constitutional Court of Peru and often dubbed the "legal capital of Peru". It is the second most populated city in Peru, after the capital Lima, with an urban population of 1,296,278 inhabitants according to the 2017 national census. Read more on Wikipedia