Rimac

Arrived at the first square, called Rimac-pampa, the accession was announced to the people, and they were ordered to come and do homage to the new Inca.

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

"Well, I don't know exactly what I mean," went on the tunnel contractor, "but our tunnel happens to start at Rimac, which is a small town at the base of the mountains."

Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes Victor [pseud.] Appleton

Then, having crossed the river in the afternoon, the Governor went forward with those soldiers and arrived by night in a village called Rimac [61] a league from that river.

Relación de la conquista del Perú. English Pedro Sancho 1918

Before long he was struck with the beauty and fertility of a great valley, watered by a stream called the Rimac, and there in 1536, he established the seat of his dominion.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866

Across the Rimac is a bridge of stone with fine arches, leading to the suburb of San Lazaro.

Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

[Illustration: A Street in Iquitos.] [Illustration: The Launch "Rimac" on the Ucayalli River.]

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

BN Lima, the capital of the Peruvian viceroyalty, was initially set out in a rectangular form in which the "plaza" was displaced to the nearby Rimac river.

The "cuadricula" 2008

BN Lima, the capital of the Peruvian viceroyalty, was initially set out in a rectangular form in which the "plaza" was displaced to the nearby Rimac river.

The "cuadricula" 2008

From Lima the train to Huancayo and the central Andes heads due east, speeding along the banks of the Rimac River to Chosica, a faded resort town perched just high enough above the coastal plain to remain untouched by winter fog.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Most of the day he slept, and I watched him as the train climbed steeply into the mountains, passing into the jagged landscape beyond Matucana and above the deep cut at Casapalca where the Rimac is stained with runoff from the mining operations that poison the upper reaches of the drainage and ruin the drinking water of Lima.

One River Wade Davis 1996