While Lima’s elite passes its summer weekends in gated beach enclaves south of the Peruvian capital, the working class jams by the thousands on a single municipal beach of grayish-brown sands and ...

The past is omnipresent in the Peruvian capital city of Lima. Though the city was formally founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1535, the area has formal architecture that dates back ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Dozens of beaches near Lima were deserted and thousands of fishermen remained without work Tuesday, one month after an oil spill at a refinery created what the United Nations called ...

One of the most popular beaches in Peru's capital Lima will close for one day on Sunday, in a rare move by authorities who say that heaps of garbage left each weekend has made the cherished spot ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru declared an environmental emergency on Thursday after announcing that 21 beaches on the Pacific coast were contaminated by an oil spill at a refinery run by Spain-based Repsol, ...

LIMA, Peru – As most Lima residents prepare to sleep, a handful of hardcore surfers descend on the only beach in Peru where they can ride the waves at night. The South American country has decked out ...

Most visitors come to Peru for the mysterious ruins of Machu Picchu and the former Incan capital, Cusco; rainforest wonders of the Amazon; Lake Titicaca’s floating reed islands; and adventure in Colca ...

LIMA, PeruLIMA, Peru — Dozens of beaches near Lima were deserted and thousands of fishermen remained without work Tuesday, one month after an oil spill at a refinery created what the United Nations ...