National Geographic Institute (Peru)


The National Geographic Institute is the national mapping agency of Peru. It is a decentralized public organization attached to the Ministry of Defence, in charge of the elaboration of the official maps of the country and to support activities related to its development and defense. Its headquarters are located in Surquillo, Lima.
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History

On February 13, 1901, when the General Staff of the Army was reorganized and a fourth entity dedicated to topography and cartography was included. On March 6, 1906, President José Pardo y Barreda approved the topographic service under the EMGE.
On April 14, 1913, the Army Geographic Service was created as a dependency of the EMGE and with a supreme decree of May 14, 1913, the geographical map of Peru was prepared, a mission that until then was fulfilled by the.
With a supreme decree of May 10, 1921, President Augusto B. Leguía entrusted the direction of the SGE to French Colonel Georges Thomas, who established the bases for a "National Charter."
In 1938, a Map of Peru was published jointly with the Geographical Society of Lima, at a scale of 1:1,500,000, which was approved by President Oscar R. Benavides and contained the international borders, as well as the interior demarcation. In 1944 the name of the SGE was changed to the Military Geographic Institute.
By Supreme Decree of October 10, 1957, the Military Geographic Institute is authorized to carry out aerial photogrammetry work for the survey of the National Chart.
Through Legislative Decree No. 30 of 1980, the IGM was renamed the National Geographic Institute, directly dependent on the Ministry of War and with the mission of preparing and updating the National Charter and providing cartographic support to the Army and other Institutes of the Armed Forces and the entities that require it for defense and development purposes.
By Law No. 24654 of March 31, 1987 and Legislative Decree No. 434 of September 27, 1987, the IGN was established as a Decentralized Public Organization of the defense sector.
On June 13, 2000, Law 27292 of the IGN was promulgated, including its organization and functions, technical directions;. Among the complementary Transitional and Final Provisions, there appears, as in previous legal regulations, the “Obligation of public and private entities to provide information of a geographic cartographic nature, to keep the Cartographic Database updated.”

Chiefs

  1. Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Méndez Prieto
  2. Colonel George Thomas
  3. Colonel José A. Vallejo F.
  4. Colonel Ricardo E. Llona
  5. Colonel Gerardo Dianderas Sánchez
  6. Colonel Bernardino Vallenas Fernández
  7. Colonel Gerardo Dianderas Sánchez
  8. Colonel Jorge Sarmiento Calmet
  9. Brigadier General Guillermo Barriga
  10. Colonel Luis Montezuma Delfín
  11. Colonel Enrique Falconi Mejía
  12. Brigadier General Marco Fernández Baca
  13. Brigadier General Marcial Rubio Escudero
  14. Brigadier General Luis Vignes Rodríguez
  15. Brigadier General Héctor Portocarrero Zubiate
  16. Colonel Guillermo Fernández Dávila
  17. Colonel Oscar De Lama Lora
  18. Colonel Luis Figari Ferreyra
  19. Brigadier General Jorge Luna Salinas
  20. Colonel Luis Figari Ferreyra
  21. Brigadier General Luis Gonzales Cárdenas
  22. Brigadier General Alberto Delgado Velasco
  23. Brigadier General Jorge Rosales Viera
  24. Brigadier General Sergio Valqui Casas
  25. Colonel Luis Effio Alfaro
  26. Brigadier General Juan León Varillas
  27. Brigadier General Alejandro Wendorff Rodríguez
  28. Brigadier General Alberto Delgado Bejarano
  29. Brigadier General Guillermo Rebagliati Escala
  30. Brigadier General José Herrera Rosas
  31. Brigadier General Luis Alberto Muñoz Díaz
  32. Brigadier General Gustavo Bobbio Rosas
  33. Brigadier General Adolfo Carbajal Valdivia
  34. Brigadier General Vargas Vaca Francisco Antonio
  35. Divisional General Carlos Alfonso Tafur Ganoza
  36. Brigadier General Pedro Arturo Chocano Ochoa
  37. Brigadier General Jorge Helmutt Sanabria Monroy
  38. Brigadier General Marco Merino Amand
  39. Brigadier General Marco Rodríguez Monge
  40. Brigadier General Fernando Portillo Romero
  41. Brigadier General Gonzalo Eduardo Cabrejos Ramos
  42. Brigadier General Carlos Enrique Bojorquez Quiñonez
  43. Brigadier General Robert Heli Valles Angulo