With that launch, the ride-sharing service made itself available in just one specific part of the wide sprawl of the city: Santa Monica and Venice.
Peru's capital was a vibrant city of indefatigable, witty people, a multicultural place, whose grandeur, while almost wholly faded, clung on in grand colonial and municipal buildings and wide, sprawling plazas.
The surprise came when the archaeologists investigated the land beyond this and found evidence of Caracol's wider urban sprawl.
Of all the regression models using metrics derived from a single land use/cover class as the independent variables, the one from the low density urban gives the highest adjusted R-square score, suggesting the impact of the watershed-wide urban sprawl upon this sensitive estuarine ecosystem.
Each year, it sprawls wider, with unofficial events, day and night, surrounding the official showcases that already offer more than 2,000 acts this year.
As part of the Government's wider attempt to minimise sprawling bureaucracy, the Health Protection Agency, a semi-autonomous body tasked with public health management including emergency disease epidemics and virus outbreaks, would be scrapped and its role reincorporated into the Department of Health.
With 13 main-slate features to go between now and next Sunday, the last week of the New York Film Festival reinforces the impression that this is an exceptionally wide-ranging, even sprawling event.
It was County who threatened first when Woods fired a curling free kick over the defensive wall but just a yard wide, with Mannus sprawling.
Some of the offerings are keenly rewarding, but the best thing about the show is the sprawl, which affords a wide and deep immersion in the city's complicated charms.
