Alfredo Benavides Avenue
{{Short description|Avenue in Lima, Peru}}
{{distinguish|Óscar R. Benavides Avenue}}
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| name = Alfredo Benavides Avenue
| image = Lima Luftaufnahme.jpg
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| namesake = Alfredo Benavides
| terminus_a = Bajada Balta
| terminus_b = Pan-American Highway
| junction = Paseo de la República, República de Panamá, Velasco Astete, Caminos del Inca avenues
| inauguration_date =
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Alfredo Benavides Avenue ({{langx|es|Avenida Alfredo Benavides}}) is one of the busiest avenues in the city of Lima, Peru. It runs for 55 blocks through the districts of Miraflores{{Cite news |title=Miraflores renace |url=http://www.elcomercio.com.pe/EdicionImpresa/Html/2007-06-11/ImEcDia10737205.html |last=Chevarría |first=Fernando |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204939/http://www.elcomercio.com.pe/EdicionImpresa/Html/2007-06-11/ImEcDia10737205.html |archive-date=2007-09-27 |work=El Comercio |last2=Vera |first2=Natalia}} and Santiago de Surco,{{Cite news |title=Conoce cuál es la avenida más concurrida de LIMA METROPOLITANA: supera a Abancay y a la Universitaria |url=https://larepublica.pe/datos-lr/respuestas/2024/02/13/ni-la-abancay-ni-la-universitaria-esta-es-la-avenida-mas-concurrida-de-lima-metropolitana-evat-347984 |last=Espiritu |first=Mary Sue |date=2024-02-15 |work=La República}} starting at the Bajada Balta and concluding at the eponymous bridge that crosses over the Pan-American Highway.
History
The avenue is named after Juan Alfredo Benavides Fernández Cornejo (Islay; 1857 — Lima; 1907), founder of the Banco Internacional del Perú and veteran of the War of the Pacific. Originally a resident of the Jirón de la Unión, he traded his property for an estate in Miraflores, then in the outer limits of the city. The avenue runs through a former portion of his land, ceded by him to the district's municipality.{{Cite web |url=http://www.acap-peru.org/newsletter/2005-12/street_wise.htm |title=Avenida Benavides named for Banker and Early Miraflores Landowner |website=American and Canadian Association of Peru |last=Rudolph |first=James |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906142356/http://www.acap-peru.org/newsletter/2005-12/street_wise.htm |archive-date=2008-09-06 |year=2005}}
It is among the busiest avenues in the city due to it housing major institutions, such as Ricardo Palma University, several financial institutions and a number of stations of the city's electric train and Metropolitano, as well as the access to the Pan-American Highway. It also houses an 11-storey building that is incomplete since its construction in the 1980s.{{Cite news |title=¿Conoces el inacabado edificio en la av. Benavides en Miraflores? Descubre su infortunada historia |url=https://larepublica.pe/datos-lr/respuestas/2022/09/09/conoces-el-inacabado-edificio-en-la-av-benavides-en-miraflores-descubre-su-infortunada-historia-origen-evat |date=2022-09-09 |work=La República}}