MOST FAMILIAR SIGHT to all who visit Lima is this great 

 equestrian statue of General Jose de Son Martin which stands 

 in the center of the plaza bearing his name. He is honored as 

 the great military leader who liberated Peru from Spanish rule 

 in 1821. Lima was founded by Francisco Pizarro nearly three 

 centuries earlier, on January 18, 1535, after that Spanish con- 

 queror had tricked and put to death Atahualpa, last of the 

 Inca kings. 



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