In the 1970s, many Peruvian intellectuals came to Mexico for political asylum, in a similar way of how other Latin Americans did, such as Chileans, Argentines and Uruguayan.

Today, Peruvian merchants, musicians, students and academics stand out who have settled indefinitely south of the capital.

[2] The first South Americans to arrive in independent Mexico came from Chile and Peru, who passed through the ports of Acapulco and Puerto Ángel, to buy supplies during the boom of the California Gold Rush in the mid-19th century.

Some Chilean and Peruvian migrants stayed and put down cultural roots among the coastal populations of the Mexican Pacific coast, from Oaxaca to the Baja California Peninsula.

The data is debatable since it is also theorized that this certain way of preparing ceviche in Mexico could have come from Polynesia during the Spanish routes between New Spain and the Philippines.