[1] On December 22, 1574, when viceroy Francisco de Toledo reorganised the Indian Corregimientos, which had been created by governor Lope García de Castro in 1565 by appointing native judges, he ordered that the corregimientos of Huarochirí, Huaylas, Ica, Jauja, Arnedo, Cajatambo and Canta depended on the ordinary mayors of the Cabildo of Lima.

In the 17th century, the port of Callao began to have a military governor appointed by the king.

[2] The intendancy system was established in the Viceroyalty of Peru by royal order of August 5, 1783.

The first intendant of Lima (who took office in 1784) was the visitor general Jorge Escobedo y Alarcón [es],[3] approved by the king on January 24 of 1785.

[6] The parts of the intendancy occupied by the Liberating Expedition of Peru were replaced by the Department of the Coast on 12 February 1821, proclaimed by General Jose de San Martin through the Reglamento Provisional during the Peruvian War of Independence,[1] and later in its entirety with the creation of the Department of Lima by the Provisional Statute, promulgated on October 8, 1821.