Which South American city is nicknamed "City of the Kings"?

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. With a population of more than 9 million, Lima is the most populous metropolitan area of Peru and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in the Americas.

Lima was founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1535 on the Catholic holiday of Epiphany, when the Three Kings visited the baby Jesus, and was therefore known as 'Ciudad de los Reyes' or 'City of the Kings'. Close to the coast and more accessible to Spain than the Inca capital of Cuzco, which was high in the mountains, Lima became the capital of viceregal Peru. The city suffered devastating earthquakes in 1687 and 1746, both of which destroyed much of the city. During the independence period, Lima remained staunchly Royalist, being among the last cities to turn to the Republican cause.

Nowadays the city is considered to be the political, cultural, financial and commercial center of the country. Internationally, it is one of the thirty most populated urban agglomerations in the world. The city is also home to one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the New World. The National University of San Marcos, founded on 12 May 1551, during the Spanish colonial empire, is the first officially established and the oldest continuously functioning university in the Americas.