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'''The Order of the Sun of Peru''' (in Spanish: ''La Orden El Sol del Peru''), formerly known as '''The Order of the Sun''', is the highest award bestowed by the nation of Peru to commend notable civil and military merit. The award is the oldest civilian award in the Americas, first being established in 1821.

==History==
The Order was originally instituted on 8 October 1821 by [[General José de San Martín]] on reaching Lima to recognize those who had distinguished themselves in the campaign against the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish Royalist]]. It was discontinued four years later, after many grantees started to use the award as a nobility title, similar to the earlier Castile titles awarded by the colonial government. All such nobility titles were abolished by 1828.

The Order was re-established in 1921.

==Classes==
The award consists of the following classes:

*Grand Cross with Diamonds
*Grand Cross
*Grand Officer
*Commander
*Officer
*Knight

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! colspan=5|'''Ribbon bars'''
|-
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|width=20% valign=top align=center|[[File:PER Order of the Sun of Peru - Grand Cross BAR.png|100px|center]]<small>Grand Cross
|width=20% valign=top align=center|[[File:PER Order of the Sun of Peru - Grand Officer BAR.png|100px|center]]<small>Grand Officer
|-
|width=20% valign=top align=center|[[File:PER Order of the Sun of Peru - Commander BAR.png|100px|center]]<small>Commander
|width=20% valign=top align=center|[[File:PER Order of the Sun of Peru - Officer BAR.png|100px|center]]<small>Officer
|width=20% valign=top align=center|[[File:PER Order of the Sun of Peru - Knight BAR.png|100px|center]]<small>Knight
|-
|}

==Notable recipients==
[[File:Soldeperuorder.jpg|thumb|right|Certificate confirming that the Order of the Sun of Peru was conferred on Ernesto Burzagli in the name of the President of the Peruvian Republic in 1924.]] 
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* [[José Mujica]]
* [[Rafael Correa]]
* [[Felipe, Prince of Asturias]]
* [[Edward VIII of the United Kingdom]]
* [[Cristina Fernández de Kirchner]]
* [[Roberto Dañino Zapata|Roberto Dañino]]
* [[Rosa Campuzano]] 
* [[Henry H. Arnold|Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold]]
* [[Lee Hsien Loong]]
* [[G.E. Berrios]]
* [[Ernesto Burzagli]]
* [[Gerardo Chavez]]
* [[Frank Freyer]]
* [[Haakon VII of Norway]]
* [[Thor Heyerdahl]]
* [[Dmitry Medvedev]]
* [[Alexei Kosygin]]
* [[Ramón Miranda Ampuero]]
* Pat Nixon, 1970<ref>[http://www.medals.org.uk/peru/peru001.htm ODM of Peru: Peruvian Order of the Sun]</ref>
* [[Olav V of Norway]]
* [[Valentín Paniagua]]
* [[Maria Reiche]]
* [[Manuela Sáenz]]
* [[Haile Selassie]]
* [[Andrew B. Shea]]
* [[Yma Sumac]]
* [[Julio C. Tello]]
* [[Pablo Grimberg Umansky]]
* [[Donald Tusk]]
*[[Daisaku Ikeda|Disaku Ikeda]]
* [[Somchai Wongsawat]]
* [[Gian Marco Zignago]]
* [[George Papandreou]]
* [[Arturo "Zambo" Cavero]]
* [[Herbert Hervey, 5th Marquess of Bristol|The 5th Marquess of Bristol]]
* [[Plácido Domingo]]
* [[Jagatjit Singh of Kapurthala]]
* [[Leonid Brezhnev]]
* Paul McCartney
* [[Jose Antonio Meier Espinosa]]
* [[Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco]]
* [[Sergey Lavrov]]
* [[Guillermo Hillcoat]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* Werlich, Robert. (1965). [http://books.google.com/books?id=aopAAAAAIAAJ&q=order+of+the+sun+peru&dq=order+of+the+sun+peru&lr=&client=firefox-a&pgis=1  ''Orders and Decorations of All Nations: Ancient and Modern, Civil and Military.] Washington, D.C.: Quaker Press.  [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/390804  OCLC 390804]
* http://www.myetymology.com/encyclopedia/Guillermo_Hillcoat.html

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