Jirón Ucayali

Jirón Ucayali is a major street in the Damero de Pizarro, located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru.

[1] The street has numerous food businesses selling Asian products, chifas and tea rooms.

[2] The road that today constitutes the street was laid by Francisco Pizarro when he founded the city of Lima on January 18, 1535.

Prior to this renaming, each block (cuadra) had a unique name: The "exercise house" of the Sacred Heart was inaugurated in 1725, originally occupying the finca inherited by María Fernández de Córdova y Sande from her father, Lorenzo Fernández de Córdova y Sande, and the building next door (destroyed by the 1746 earthquake).

[10] On January 13, 2024, a code-3 (out of control) fire consumed a 102-year old building near the street's corner with Abancay Avenue, affecting 16 families.