When Nicolas Rojas Venaute was born on 21 March 1917, in Pataz, La Libertad, Peru, his father, Pedro Telmo Rojas Mendieta, was 33 and his mother, Maria Bonifacia Venaute Quispe, was 29. He died on 6 July 2003, in Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru, at the age of 86.
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Chile returned Tacna to Peru.
Quechua, the language of the Inca, was made an official language along with Spanish of Peru.
Peru fights border war with Ecuador over Cordillera del Condor, which a 1942 protocol had given to Peru.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Jorge, Jesus, Francisco, Pedro, Ricardo, Rafael, Raul.
Spanish: habitational name from any of the places called Rojas in Burgos province, from a derivative of rojo ‘red’. Compare Rojano and Roxas .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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