It is mainly residential, with slums in the north, pueblos jóvenes ("young towns"), or squatter settlements, in the east, and middle-income housing in the south.
These young towns have grown up and are now sporting some of Lima's best night life in the form of a strip of clubs in the town of Los Olivos.
10 p.m. 9) DISCOS ON THE OUTSKIRTS Lima's great population boom came in the 1950s when the Andean people migrated to the city in large numbers, creating scores of young towns, or pueblos jovenes, on the outskirts.
"It was a young town, made up of people moving in from the rural areas.
Millions of young town dwellers were uprooted and sent to the countryside to "learn from the peasants".
"Tijuana is a young town, maybe 105 years old," said Riqui Martínez de Castro, who oversees entertainment bookings at the Festival Hotel in Rosarito.
"It's competitive out there, even for the lower paying jobs, especially when you're 60 looking for a job in a young town," Ms. Bires said.
To proceed with leaving Europe will permanently divide old against young, town against country, social class against social class, Britain against itself.
All told, 66 inoculated young town residents, under the care of Dr. Eli Todd, carved their names and hopes of survival in this rock between 1792 and 1794.
It's a young town, with more than 55,000 students at the University of Texas, which makes for an active night life.
