Jirón Apurímac

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 Apurímac, after the department of Apurímac. Prior to this renaming, each block (cuadra) had a unique name:^[2]

• Block 1: San Cristóbal, after a church of the same name that was destroyed in the earthquake of 1746. It is currently the Portal Pumacahua, also known as the Portal San Martín and is no longer part of the street but part of San Martín Square.^[3]
• Block 2: Cueva, after Alfonso de la Cueva y Ponce de León, who lived there.^[4]
• Block 3: Corazón de Jesús, after the church of the same name, the first church built with that dedication.^[5]
• Block 4: Chacarilla, where the College of Our Lady of Guadalupe was originally founded.^[6][7]

The street, in its intersection with the Jirón Azángaro, is the location of the Iglesia de los Huérfanos.^[8]

• 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 2021-08-11. Retrieved 2023-12-20.