“Pedro De León Portocarrero’s Description”

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“Pedro de León Portocarrero’s Description” The author is describing to his audience the eight most important streets in Lima that cover the central square. He states that all of the streets are very strait and that they continue on into the open country. He talks about how each street has its own personality almost. He speaks about how each street cuts through the land as it travels through Lima. He speaks of the landmarks that each road passes by, over, and around as well as the plants and trees that they pass by. He speaks of one road that passes by the church of the barefoot nuns that the church brings income in from rent to the tune of 30,000 assayed pesos. He continues on about the other roads and how each one is different but how they all seem to be the same in some respect. He speaks of a street where more than twenty shops sat. Also along this road sits a convent where many of the nobles send their daughters to stay where they learn manners and leave the convent when it is time to marry. They have black slaves with in the convent that serve the other women there. The next street he describes seems to be the center of commerce in Lima. This street houses forty shops and the higher end merchants do business there. He continues on to describe the streets that go past the Jesuit College, the streets that head past the ocean and even the street that houses the Silversmiths and to finish off his description of the streets he descirbes the streets that head from east to west which lead out of the city toward

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