Jirón Ocoña

The road that today constitutes the street was laid by Francisco Pizarro when he founded the city of Lima on January 18, 1535. In 1862, when a new urban nomenclature was adopted, the road was named jirón Ocoña, after the district of Camaná Province, in Arequipa. Prior to this renaming, each block (cuadra) had a unique name:^[1]

• Block 1: Matajudios, after a farm owned by an influential family with the surname Matamoros in the 17th century.^[2]
• Block 2: Pilitricas, for reasons not known.^[3]
• Block 3: Ibarrola, after alférez Domingo de Ibarrola, who was Mayor of Callao in the 18th century.^[4]

During the first presidency of Alan García, when the Dólar MUC was instituted^[5] and high inflation combined with freedom of exchange made the purchase and sale of the U.S. dollar a profitable business, the Jirón Ocoña brought together a large number of money changers and currency exchange houses, causing it to be nicknamed the "little Wall Street of Lima."^[6][7][8]

Currently, the business of buying and selling foreign currencies is no longer concentrated in Jirón Ocoña, but it nevertheless continues to host a large number of these businesses.^{[citation needed]}

• Historic Centre of Lima

• Bromley Seminario, Juan (2019). Las viejas calles de Lima (PDF) (in Spanish). Lima: Metropolitan Municipality of Lima. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2023-12-23.