Lima
-12.0600°S -77.0375°W · Q2868
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Lima. It sits in Peru.
The bean is named for the Peruvian capital.
Boxes of the beans shipped from Lima were labelled with the port, and the name followed the cargo into English.
The captors released more than three hundred hostages before the siege was two weeks old.
On 17 December 1996, fourteen members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement seized a reception at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima and held hundreds of guests. Within days they had let most of them go, including the most valuable ones, and observers concluded that the young captors had grown attached to the people they were guarding. The siege ended in April 1997 when Peruvian commandos tunneled in and stormed the compound.