Puente Piedra District
The Puente Piedra district is one of the forty-three districts that make up the province of Lima, located in the department of Lima, in Peru. It limits to the north, with the district of Ancón; to the east, with the district of Carabayllo; to the south, with the districts of Comas, Los Olivos and San Martín de Porres; and to the west, with the districts of Ventanilla and Mi Perú, both belonging to the Constitutional province of Callao.
Its capital is Cercado de Puente Piedra. Within the ecclesiastical division of the Catholic Church of Peru, it belongs to the Diocese of Carabayllo.
History
Between the years 1471 - 1493, the Inca Túpac Yupanqui, after conquering the coastal town of the Chillón River valley, ordered the construction of bridges and roads in order to facilitate the passage of the Imperial Army to strengthen the expansion of Tahuantinsuyo, the Quechua name for the Inca empire.
This is how a very large stone appears on the irrigation canal that was located on Sáenz Peña Street and Juan Lecaros Avenue, which in that Inca time was used to cross the swamps in the area where the town is today. capital of the District, which allowed us to take the roads through the hills to Tambo Inga and continue to Ensenada to cross the Chillón River over the Inca Bridge.
When the Incas learned of the proximity of the Spanish, they destroyed the bridges and roads; The aforementioned stone ended up at the bottom of the ditch, allowing the water to pass through its ends. The Inca bridge of Ensenada was rebuilt in the Spanish style and blown up in March 1998 due to problems with the El Niño Phenomenon.
As the swamps dried up, the dry part was covered with grass; This led to Doña Francisca de Aguilar, then owner of Copacabana, asking Viceroy Francisco de Borja y Aragón, prince of Esquilache, 12th viceroy of Peru from 1615 to 1621, to sell the gramadales. The viceroy, after a respective study, denied the request and declared it for public use with the purpose of favoring the merchants who rested there and fed their beasts of burden, and then continued their trip to Chancay.
Once the haciendas were formed within the viceregal system, the stone continued to provide its service as a bridge although the passage was made from jump to jump; Because the swamps prevented passage on the other side, for this reason, this swampy and unpopulated area took the name of "Puente Piedra" in republican times and when the estates required a greater number of workers for cotton and sugar cane crops. In the year 1870, the railroad was built and a station was built on its section from Lima to Ancón, which due to its proximity to our aforementioned stone; It was called "Puente Piedra Station". A hamlet was formed around it and its agricultural inhabitants dried the swamps and turned the grasslands into productive areas.
In 1906, the Italian Tomás Marsano appeared, asking the Peruvian government to grant the gramadales on both sides of the railway, from the stone bridge to Piedras Gordas in the north and including the hills to the Ventanilla sea in the north. West. Marsano mentioned the public nature of Los Gramadales when he requested them from the State for an irrigation project. His opponent was, at this time, Rigoberto Molina, owner of Copacabana.
Tomás Marsano, for his part, insisted on claiming ownership of those humid lands, which were west of the Copacabana hacienda, despite knowing that it belonged to the Cabildo of Lima since the viceroyalty. The residents confront Tomás Marsano through a judicial process based on the ownership of the land, which with great effort they managed to put at the service of agriculture.
In 1918 Tomás Marsano legally purchased the Copacabana hacienda with an area of 153 bushels from Rigoberto Molina, who with the favor of the First Instance Judge Dr. Ernesto Arauji Álvarez in 1909 had reregistered his hacienda including the Gramadales, as recorded in the Public Records of Lima. When trying to take full possession, Marsano reverses his arguments and attacks the peaceful farmers, trying to evict them or impose abusive charges. It should be noted that the addition of Los Gramadales to the Copacabana Estate was carried out without presenting a document proving how these new lands had been acquired and even so, they managed to register it in the public records, so it is presumed that " documentary falsification" and therefore, to date the Copacabana Estate would be irregularly registered in public records.
The residents prevented Tomás Marsano from taking possession and on January 20, 1921 they created the 'Society of Community Members of Puente Piedra', with Manuel Garay as president and made up of 55 heads of family. Among them were: Tomás, Marcos and Augusto Garay, Eloy Núñez Obispo, Leoncio Padilla or Gregorio Quiroz, Felícita Ortiz, Anco Saco, Martel Barreto and others. Later, led by Juan Lecaros, the Community prosecutes Marsano. In 1922 the struggle achieved its most resounding victory: the law of expropriation of the Puente Piedra lands was enacted, declaring those who currently own them as owners.
On February 14, 1925, this organization managed to get President Augusto B. Leguía to dictate Law 5675 that created the Puente Piedra district, setting its limits and designating Juan Lecaros as its first Mayor and Manuel Gonzales, Gregorio Quiroz, Luis Montemayor and Eloy Núñez as first councilors. In this way, the old district of Carabayllo loses its most important hamlet, the maritime strip of Ventanilla, the train station, the sugar mill and several haciendas. Likewise, the Peruvian banker Rollin Thorne Sologuren, representative of the Infantas and Caudivilla Agricultural Society, one of the main companies that own agricultural land in the Carabayllo valley, was the owner of an important agricultural estate within the district of Puente Piedra.
The district was founded on February 14, 1927 by Law No. 5675, separating itself from the Carabayllo district. It has an area of 71.18 square kilometers and an estimated population of more than 300,000 inhabitants. Puente Piedra located in the northern area of Lima, A new axis of commercial development in North Lima has been developing for some years in the Puente Piedra district where commerce is currently growing rapidly. Puente Piedra is becoming the new investment hub in the industrial and commercial sector of Lima Norte. After the 'boom' of private investments in Independencia, Los Olivos and Comas, the Puente Piedra district is now added. that is ready to be rediscovered as a society, tourist attraction and commercial opportunity that is projected and is on its way to being one of the most developed districts in Northern Lima.
Subsequently, until the 1960s, the Satélite city of Ventanilla was founded in the western part, which finally, in the military government in 1969, created the district of Ventanilla and at the same time included within the Constitutional province. of Callao, losing more than half of its initial territory.
Authorities
Municipal
- 2019 - 2022
- Mayor: Rennan Santiago Espinoza Venegas, of the Democratic Party We are Peru.
- Regivers:
- Faustino Fernando Vilca Vargas (Democratic Party We Are Peru)
- Deysi Saucedo Marín (Democratic Party We Are Peru)
- Richard Esteban Pérez Chacón (Democratic Party We Are Peru)
- Ana Luz Calderón Ricappa (Democratic Party We Are Peru)
- Paola Lizeth Huamán Quispe (Democratic Party We Are Peru)
- Héctor Luis Adrián Diestra (Democratic Party We Are Peru)
- Alexander Valentín Pachas Magallanes (Democratic Party We Are Peru)
- Yois Karolain Zamudio Sánchez (Democratic Party We Are Peru)
- Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Silupu (Always United States)
- Wilmer Alberto Rodríguez Gamarra (Always United States)
- Victor Adam Jara Márquez (Always United)
- Milton Fernando Jiménez Salazar (National Solidarity)
Events
- 13 February: District Anniversary
- 28 and 29 July: Festivals in Peru
- October: Lord of the Miracles
- November (1st): All Saints Day
Land Transportation
Bus
This is the district of origin of a large majority of lines throughout the city of Lima, there are also several transport companies that circulate. These are the transport companies that use urban buses:
| Company | Route |
|---|---|
 | Metropolitan North Food Route |
E.T.S. "The Quick" S.A.
|
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| Anconero S.A.C. | Carabayllo - Ancon |
| San Felipe Express S.A. | Carabayllo - Ate |
| Consortium Via S.A.C. | Puente Piedra - Ate |
| E.T. Condor S.A.C. (The Chinese) | Puente Piedra - Villa El Salvador |
| E.T. Edilberto Ramos S.A. (C) | Puente Piedra - Villa El Salvador |
| E.T. Alamo Express S.A. (C) | Puente Piedra - Villa El Salvador |
| E. S. M. Nuevo Perú S. A. (C) | Puente Piedra - Pachacámac |
| E.T. Rosa de Las Americas S.A. | Puente Piedra - Rimac |
| E.T.Y.S. Virgin of the S.A. Gate. | Ancon - Pachacámac |
| I.S.M. The New Star S.A.C. | Ancon - Window |
| E.T.S. Good Star S.R.L. | Ancon - La Victoria |
| E.T. The Loritos S.A.C. | Window - Ate |
| E.T. 41 S.A. | Ventanilla - Villa El Salvador |
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