Barrio Chino - Calle Capon

Lima's China Town is locally known as "Barrio Chino" and even as "Calle Capon", due to the old name of this street during the Vice Royalty times. Actually, Lima is home for the largest Chinese descendants community in South America, and its most notable landmark is the red Chinese Arch built at the entrance in 1971 to honor the friendship between China and Peru. Nowadays this is a Chinese-themed boulevard with many "chifas" (Peruvian-Chinese restaurants) and that features a significant oriental influence in its architecture; but there are also many different shops owned mostly by Chineses (or by their Peruvian descendants). Many China-related cultural activities are held here, like dance parades, and you can even buy a local newspaper print entirely in Chinese.