Viceroyalty of Peru Viceroyalty of Peru The Viceroyalty of Peru () was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima. The Viceroyalty of Peru was one of the two Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. The Spanish did not resist the Portuguese expansion of Brazil across the meridian established by the Treaty of Tordesillas. The treaty was rendered meaningless between 1580 and 1640 while Spain controlled Portugal. The creation during the 18th century of Viceroyalties of New Granada and Río de la
Lircay, Peru Lircay, Peru Lircay is a town in Central Peru, capital of the province Angaraes in the region Huancavelica. It is located at an altitude of 3,278 m. The town had a population according to the 2007 census of 6,563 people. Most of the people of the town belong to tha native American race. The city is connected to the city of Huancavelica by a 2-lane road that was paved in 2016. The town is home of a local university; the "Universidad para el Desarrollo Andino", and has a branch of the Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica. There are a local technical