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dominant Quechua II languages, with an "r" instead of an "l"). It is known in Jaqaru, a language spoken in the department's districts of Catahuasi and Tupe, as Nimaja.

It was also known simply as the Department of the Capital from 1821 until 1823.

History

On the northern coast of the region, the first known civilization in the Americas, Caral,

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