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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| Namesake | Alfredo Benavides |
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| From | Bajada Balta |
| Major junctions | Paseo de la República, República de Panamá, Velasco Astete, Caminos del Inca avenues |
| To | Pan-American Highway |
History
editThe 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]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Chevarría, Fernando; Vera, Natalia. "Miraflores renace". El Comercio. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
- ^ a b Espiritu, Mary Sue (2024-02-15). "Conoce cuál es la avenida más concurrida de LIMA METROPOLITANA: supera a Abancay y a la Universitaria". La República.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "¿Conoces el inacabado edificio en la av. Benavides en Miraflores? Descubre su infortunada historia". La República. 2022-09-09.