Leoncio Prado Military Academy

Leoncio Prado Military Academy
Spanish: Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado
Other name
CMLP
MottoSpanish: Disciplina, Moralidad, Trabajo
Motto in English
Discipline, Morality, Work
TypeMilitary high school and preparatory school
Established27 August 1943 (1943-08-27)
Founders
Accreditation
AffiliationPeruvian Armed Forces
Director GeneralCRL. EP. Edilmer Chávez Guevara
Location,
Peru
LanguageSpanish
Named in honour ofLeoncio Prado Gutiérrez
Websitewww.leoncioprado.com

The Leoncio Prado Military Academy (Spanish: Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado) is a Peruvian educational institution founded on 27 August 1943 by President of the Republic Manuel Prado Ugarteche and Secretary of Education Elías La Rosa.

The academy came to worldwide notice as the setting of the novel The Time of the Hero by the Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. A military-style high school with boarding facilities, it serves as both a military high school and the preparatory school for potential officers of the Peruvian Armed Forces, who make up most of its alumni.