Lima Metro Lima Metro The Lima Metro (), is a metropolitan railway operated by Argentinian company Ferrovías and Peruvian company Graña y Montero, currently linking the district of Villa El Salvador in the south of Lima with San Juan de Lurigancho in the northeast of the capital of Peru. Despite the line having obtained 32 cars and completed construction of 7 stations for over many years, it did not operate a commercial service in 1990 during the first presidency of Alan García (1985–1990) because the constructed section didn't have the distance or demand required to make it commercially viable. The construction of
Augusto de Lima Augusto de Lima Antônio Augusto de Lima (5 April 1859 – 22 April 1934) was a Brazilian journalist, poet, musician, magistrate, jurist, professor and politician. He was born in Congonhas de Sabará (now Nova Lima). Augusto de Lima was governor of the state of Minas Gerais, and he idealized the transfer of the state's capital from Ouro Preto to Belo Horizonte (then "Curral Del Rey"). In 1903, he became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and was elected its president in 1928. In 1906, Augusto de Lima was elected "deputado federal" (house representative) and moved to Rio de