The urban community of Huaycán (officially named Comunidad Urbana Autogestionaria de Huaycán) is a town of Lima, Peru, located in Ate District, approximately 16.5 kilometres east of Lima. It is home to thousands of immigrant settlers from different parts of Peru, looking to improve their standard of living and job opportunities in the city of Lima. Huaycán is also a notable archaeological site. It has a population of over 160,000 inhabitants. History The emergence of the Huaycán Special Project in 1984 was part of the Urban Development Plan of the Municipal Government of Izquierda Unida (IU) prepared under the management of the Mayor of Ate Vitarte, Franklin Acosta del Pozo. Ate was considered in the program of the three Cones of Metropolitan Lima, for families without housing and with scarce economic resources. In the Southern Cone, the pampas of Manchay; the Northern Cone, the Chillón River Slopes and San Juan de Lurigancho; and the Eastern Cone, the Quebradas de Huaycán, which were still under the custody of the Pope Family, considered as alleged owners. The procedures for the adjudication of land in the Quebrada de Huaycán began before 1983, by members of 18 housing groups, mostly workers from the powers of the State, during the administration of the mayor of Metropolitan Lima, Eduardo Orrego Villacorta, of the Popular Action party. Carrying out previously the pertinent studies and the topographic survey of the Huaycán Special Project. In September 1983, a group of families came together in the Andrés Avelino Cáceres de Ate Vitarte human settlement. In March 1984, the Pro-Huaycán José Carlos Mariátegui Human Settlement of El Agustino was founded, which brought together some 500 members. The human settlements in the districts of Chaclacayo, Ate Vitarte and El Agustino, mostly promoted by leaders of the United Left party (IU), requested in early 1984 the adjudication of the land in the Huaycán ravine. This request was met by the then Provincial Mayor of Lima Alfonso Barrantes, who promoted the emergence of the Huaycán Special Project, which made up the Urban Development Plan in the three cones of Metropolitan Lima, as an alternative for families with limited economic resources that they did not own a home. Enabling this project in the Southern Cone the Pampas de Manchay, in the Northern Cone the Slopes of the Chillón River in San Juan de Lurigancho, and in the Eastern Cone the Quebrada de Huaycán. On July