| Jirón Caylloma | |
| Part Of: | Damero de Pizarro |
| Namesake: | Caylloma Province |
| Terminus A: | Jirón Conde de Superunda |
| Terminus B: | Jirón Quilca |
| Junction: | Jirón Callao, Jirón Ica, Jirón Huancavelica, Jirón Moquegua, Jirón Ocoña, Avenida Emancipación, La Colmena |
| Completion Date: | 1535 |
Jirón Caylloma, also known as Jirón Cailloma, is a major street in the Damero de Pizarro, located in the historic centre of Lima, Peru. The street starts at its intersection with Jirón Conde de Superunda and continues until it reaches Jirón Quilca.
The street has housed important characters of the republican history of Peru, such as Colonel Francisco Bolognesi[1] and poet José Santos Chocano.[2]
The road that today constitutes the street was laid by Francisco Pizarro when he founded the city of Lima on January 18, 1535. With the expansion of the Basilica and Convent of Santo Domingo, the street was enclosed alongside the jirón Santa.
In 1862, when a new urban nomenclature was adopted, the road was named jirón Caylloma, after the province of the same name. Prior to this renaming, each block (cuadra) had a unique name:
The home of poet José Santos Chocano is located in the former Argandoña street. The 479.58 m2 building was built 1864-1865, inhabited by Chocano's family since 1874. He was born on May 14 of the following year. In 1922, while in a ceremony at the Palacio de la Exposición with Augusto B. Leguía, a plaque was placed in his home, the work of sculptor David Lozano.[3]
Also located in the street is the art nouveau-decorated Pancorvo Building, named after the Pancorvo Brothers' company, who owned it.[3]
On October 28, 1823, José Olaya, a spy for the Patriot side of the Peruvian War of Independence, was captured carrying correspondence from Callao, where Antonio José de Sucre was located. He was later executed on what became known as the Pasaje Olaya.[4]
By 2012, the street was reported to be extremely dangerous at night due to its number of hostile homeless persons and criminals.[5]
The street saw two fires in 2023, the first took place in May as a result of a failed irregular vacancy attempt which led to 40 arrests,[6] and the second one took place in October, close to the Casa de Bolognesi, after an illegal warehouse caught on fire.[7]