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Miraflores, distrito (district) of the Lima–Callao metropolitan area of Peru, south of central Lima on the Pacific coast. It abounds in bougainvillea for most of the year; thus, in the mid-16th century, while still an Inca village, it came to be known by its present name (meaning “look at the flowers”). Although an 1850 census mentioned it as a district of Lima, it was not legally declared such until 1866. It was involved in the...

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