An Ode to Lima, Peru
BY BRIAN LANGLEY
Lima is an unstoppable, unrelenting surge of human ingenuity, desire, and chaos checked only by the one thing stronger than she—nature, specifically the Pacific Ocean.
Flowing up and out from the ancient Wari people, and the Chancay, and the Lima civilization and flowing down from the heart of Incas, these ancestors found and made communal life in the desert thanks to the rivers Chillón, Rimac, and Lurín, and the bountiful Peruvian seas fed by the Humboldt current coming north from Antarctica.