Ancón District
district of Lima, Peru
Ancón is a district of northern Lima Province in Peru. It is a popular beach resort destination of Lima, visited every summer by millions of people from Lima. It is the largest district of the Lima Province.
Ancon was officially established as a district on October 29, 1874, segregating itself from the Carabayllo district. The current mayor (alcalde) of Ancón is John Barrera Bernui. The district's postal code is 2.
History
Ancón is an important site in Peruvian history and archaeology. This was a fishing town and as a burying ground for pre-Inca Indigenous civilizations of Ancon-Supe, which flourished about 4,000 years ago as one of the oldest societies in Peruvian history.
In Ancon (archaeological site), the ridges of gravel and sandy soil were littered with skulls, bones, and remnants of tattered handwoven cloth. Beneath the surface, grave robbers found mummified bodies with all the accompanying grave goods in shallow graves.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Ancón District” is district of Lima, Peru. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ancón, District and district, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “district of Lima, Peru” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2749045. VIAF identifies the subject as 147793982. The Library of Congress control number is n84045286. Authority coordinates are -11.775, -77.175. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1874.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ancón District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.