Parque Reducto No. 2
cultural heritage site in Peru
Redoubt No. 2 Park (Spanish: Parque Reducto № 2) is a 20,000 m2 public park located at the intersections of Benavides and Luis Bedoya Reyes avenues, in Miraflores District, Lima, Peru. Located in a former redoubt built by the Peruvian Army during the War of the Pacific, it was declared a National Monument in 1944, and a Patriotic Sanctuary in 1965.
The building formerly used as a train station now houses a museum dedicated to Andrés Avelino Cáceres.
History
The redoubts (reductos) were defenses built by the Peruvian Army in order to defend Lima from the Chilean Army during the War of the Pacific. In 1880, the Chileans had landed in Pisco and had successfully pushed north toward the city. There were ten in total:
Reducto No. 1: located at the esplanade of Chorrillos, it was where Battalion No. 2 was entrenched under the command of Colonel Manuel Lecca. Among its civilian defenders was Augusto B. Leguía.
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