restaurant
El Chinito
A Lima sangucheria institution since 1960, famous for the pan con chicharron: fried pork belly with sweet potato and salsa criolla, eaten standing at the counter.
2 km · about 5 min drive
South AmericaPeruLima Province
Lima
Lima Province, Peru · South America
About Lima
Lima works well as a base: 10 minutes from San Luis, 8km from Huaca Pucllana.
Lima is in Lima Province, Peru, with about 7.7 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is San Luis, about 5 km away.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is there to see near Lima?
Within an hour or so of Lima: El Chinito (2 km), Museo Larco (6 km), Huaca Pucllana (8 km), Central (12 km).
Are there any good drives near Lima?
The nearest famous roads are Serpentín de Pasamayo and Ticlio Pass (Abra Anticona).
Where is Lima?
Lima is in Lima Province, Peru, about 5 km from San Luis.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 7,737,002
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Peru
- Region
- Lima Province
- Timezone
- America/Lima
- Coordinates
- -12.0432, -77.0282
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Worth the detour from Lima
5 notable places within an hour's drive.
museum
Museo Larco
A stunning pre-Columbian art museum in a beautiful 18th-century viceregal mansion, showcasing 5,000 years of Peruvian history.
6 km · about 10 min drive
ancient ruins
Huaca Pucllana
A stepped adobe pyramid of the Lima culture, built around 500 AD from millions of vertically-stacked mud bricks, marooned among Miraflores apartment blocks. Evening tours light the ruin.
8 km · about 15 min drive
restaurant
Central
Virgilio Martinez's Barranco restaurant, whose tasting menu is organised by altitude, each course drawn from a different Peruvian ecosystem from ocean floor to high Andes. Long ranked the world's best restaurant.
12 km · about 25 min drive
coastal drive
Serpentín de Pasamayo
Notorious 22 km stretch of the Panamericana Norte snaking along sheer sand cliffs above the Pacific between Ancón and Chancay, often wrapped in coastal fog.
49 km · about 55 min drive
Driving roads near Lima
2 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
- 49 kmSerpentín de PasamayoNotorious 22 km stretch of the Panamericana Norte snaking along sheer sand cliffs above the Pacific between Ancón and Chancay, often wrapped in coastal fog.
When to drive here
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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