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2 unusual facts about Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Cañete

Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Cañete

He also endowed the recently founded University of Lima.

He was a descendant of Juan Hurtado de Mendoza, Señor de Mendívil.

He founded the Hospital of San Andrés, also at Lima, and had the mummies of the Incas Viracocha, Yupanqui, and Huayna Capac moved there.


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