Breña
Breña is a district of Lima, Peru. It is the second smallest district of the city, and its creation dates back to the demolition of the city walls ordered by president José Balta during the late 19th century, which led to the broad expansion of the city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pabad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Pabad, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Locality with 85,300 residents
- Description: district of Lima, Peru
- Also known as: “Brena” and “Breña District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Larco Herrera Museum and National Stadium of Peru.
Larco Herrera Museum
Museum
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Larco Museum is a privately owned museum of pre-Columbian art, located in the Pueblo Libre District of Lima, Peru. The museum is housed in an 18th-century vice-royal building.
National Stadium of Peru
Sports venue
The National Stadium of Peru is a multi-purpose stadium in Lima, Peru. Its current capacity is 50,086 seats as stated by the Peruvian Football Federation without the lodges for some thousands more.
Lima Art Museum
Museum
The Lima Art Museum is an art museum in Lima, Peru. The museum is located in the Palacio de la Exposición. The museum was inaugurated in 1961. The collection includes ceramics, textiles, sculptures, and paintings surveying almost 3,000 years of history ranging from the pre-Columbian to Contemporary time periods.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lima and Central Lima.
Lima
Photo: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0.
Lima is the capital of Peru and its largest city. Founded in 1535 by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, the modern city is a curious mix of the modern mega city with some 'islands of modernity', large but orderly slum areas and colonial architecture in downtown.
Central Lima
Photo: S23678, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Central Lima, Peru comprises the districts of Lima, Breña, Jesús María, Lince, La Victoria, San Luis, El Agustino and Rímac.
West Lima
Western Lima includes the Chorrillos, San Isidro, Magdalena del Mar, Pueblo Libre, San Miguel districts of Lima, to the south of the Rimac River and west of Av. Arequipa. The related districts of Central Lima, Miraflores and Barranco have their own pages.
Breña
- Category: district of Peru
- Location: Lima, Lima region, Peru, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aymara to Spanish—“Breña” goes by many names.
- Aymara: “Breña jisk’a t’aqa suyu”
- Aymara: “Breña jiska taqa suyu”
- Catalan: “Breña”
- Catalan: “Districte de Breña”
- Cebuano: “Breña”
- Chinese: “布雷尼亞區”
- Dutch: “Breña”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Breña”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto de Breña”
- French: “Breña”
- German: “Breña”
- German: “Distrikt Breña”
- Italian: “Breña”
- Italian: “Distretto di Breña”
- Portuguese: “Breña”
- Quechua: “Breña distritu”
- Quechua: “Distrito de Breña”
- Russian: “Бренья”
- Slovenian: “Breña”
- Spanish: “Breña”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Breña”
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