History of Santiago de Surco

Santiago de Surco was already inhabited long before the Spaniards arrived. After the conquest, in 1539 the Spanish conqueror Francisco de Carabantes planted on the fertile land the first vines, that became famous in the whole Lima. Around 1820, at the time of independence, Santiago de Surco became under the government of the liberator Simon Bolívar one of the only seven districts in Lima. Later in 1859 under the Republican government of Ramón Castilla it was one of 10 municipalities. The district as we know it today was officially created on the 16th of December 1929.