Equestrian statue of Francisco Pizarro, Equestrian monument in the historic centre of Lima, Peru

The equestrian statue of Francisco Pizarro is a bronze group by Charles Cary Rumsey showing the conquistador in armor and a wide-brimmed hat, sword at his right side, on a rearing horse. It stands on a tall light gray stone pedestal with a stepped base, in the Pasaje Santa Rosa between the Plaza Mayor and the Municipal Palace, beside the monument to curaca Taulichusco.

The bronze was inaugurated on 18 January 1935, the fourth centenary of Lima's founding, in the atrium of the Cathedral; it was donated by Mary Harriman, widow of sculptor Charles Cary Rumsey, and cast by E. Gargani. In 1952 Cardinal Juan Landázuri Ricketts had it moved to Plaza Pizarro, and on 28 April 2003 mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio ordered its removal. After 17 months in storage it went to Parque de La Muralla in 2004, and on 15 January 2025 it returned with its pedestal to Pasaje Santa Rosa.

Since January 2025 the statue shares Pasaje Santa Rosa with the monument to the curaca Taulichusco, the indigenous ruler of the Rimac valley when Pizarro arrived. The pairing was presented by the city as a recognition of Peru's mestizo identity and its Hispanic reality, and it places the founder and the pre-Hispanic lord a few steps apart.

The statue stands on its stone pedestal in the Pasaje Santa Rosa, the pedestrian passage linking the Plaza Mayor with the Municipal Palace, so it is reached on foot from the square. It shares the passage with the monument to the curaca Taulichusco, and the surrounding streets of the historic centre are walked by both residents and visitors.

This bronze sculpture is one of three identical versions created by American artist Charles Cary Rumsey. The other copies stand in Buffalo in the United States and in Trujillo in Spain, giving the work an international story.