[citation needed] Through an act of 29 August 1856,[1] president Ramón Castilla founded the Universidad de Puno.

[citation needed] On 6 December 1860, the government of Puno designated San Carlos Borromeo as the patron saint of the university.

[2] The following list includes notable recipients of honorary degrees from the National University of the Altiplano de Puno.

The Revista de Derecho, is a semiannual peer-reviewed law journal published by the Faculty of Ciencias Jurídicas y Políticas at the UNAP.

It is produced by editor-in-chief Boris G. Espezúa Salmón in collaboration with Raúl Zaffaroni, Michael Espinoza, and other researchers.