The 2nd Army Division (Spanish: II División de Ejército) is a combined infantry division unit of the Peruvian Army (EP) that specialized in combat patrol in mountain forest terrain, combined arms, irregular warfare, jungle and mountain warfare, and maneuver warfare..

The 2nd Army Division was created on 15 December 1961 in Lima as 2nd Military Region.

After members of the Civil Guard barricaded themselves in their Radio Patrulla barracks, the 2nd Division was ordered to remove them by force, which was done on the same day.

[4][5] In 1987, it was installed in the Rafael Hoyos Rubio Military Fort, located at Rímac District, province of Lima.

[3] In 2003, it was renamed as the Central Military Region (Spanish: Región Militar del Centro),[6] name it would bear until 2012.