Little Lima Little Lima Little Lima is a Peruvian enclave in Downtown Paterson, New Jersey, United States. New Jersey's Peruvian population continues to grow in its urban areas, especially in Paterson, which is considered by many to be the capital of the Peruvian Diaspora in the United States. East Newark has the largest Peruvian percentage in the country per capita, although the borough itself has a total population of 2,377 as of the United States 2000 Census. New Jersey is home to one of the largest Peruvian American populations of any US state. Little Lima is bounded to the west by Spruce
Lima Province territories of present-day Lima, Callao and Ica regions, and the provinces of Casma, Huarmey and Santa, which later would be part of the La Costa Department. The department was further subdivided as time passed but the Lima Province kept being part of it. Due to the massive migration from other areas of the country, the need to separate the province from the rest of the department was forecast by experts. In 2002, the new regionalization law passed by President Alejandro Toledo made the Lima Province a separate entity from the rest of the newly created Lima Region. The province is