Eugenio Larrabure y Unanue

Manuel Eugenio Larrabure y Unanue (19 January 1844 – 12 May 1916) was a Peruvian politician, diplomat, writer, historian and journalist.

He was soon promoted to senior officer in 1878 and in the following year, he was appointed in Spain as secretary of the legation led by José Joaquín de Osma, whom he later replaced as Chargé d'Affaires.

After returning to Peru, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of General Miguel Iglesias (1883-1884) and was responsible for the coordination of everything related to the initial implementation of the recently signed Treaty of Ancón with Chile, together with the signatories Jose Antonio de Lavalle and Mariano Castro Zaldívar.

During the government of Colonel Remigio Morales Bermúdez, he was again appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs (1892 - 1893) The office vested him (along with plenipotentiaries like José Mariano Jiménez Wald and Ramón Ribeyro), with the duty of initiation of negotiations to hold the plebiscite of Tacna and Arica, as required by the Treaty of Ancón.

He temporarily retired from public activity and dedicated himself to the development and agricultural exploration of his Unanue estate, located in the Cañete valley, which is currently considered an integral monument of the Cultural Heritage of Peru.