Brief description of colonial health in the other Rimac river bank. The case of the suburb of San Lázaro of the city of Lima

Abstract

San Lázaro was the neighborhood that was on the other side of the Rímac river, facing the Plaza Mayor. It became the access to the city from the north of the Viceroyalty of Peru. In the sixteenth century it was occupied by Indians, blacks and monks, but gradually with the construction of the Descalzos Alameda became the green area of the city, close to amenities and comfort. However, it would not last long this situation, because of the contaminating activities that were along the river as tanneries. Also, it was a place for the concentration of the black slaves in this part of the river in the early seventeenth century. As time went on, this area became the main green area of the city but the garbage and muladares are part of this landscape too.