EL AGUSTINO

community of El Agustino distrito (district), Peru, in the east-central Lima-Callao metropolitan area. It was founded about 1955, when tenant farmers found it more profitable to lease land for residences than to cultivate it. El Agustino and neighbouring communities were granted district status in 1965. Within walking distance of Lima, the town is poorly laid out; adobe or brick houses and shops line its narrow, twisting alleys. There are schools and a clinic. Pop. (1990 est.) district, 171,280.