The design of the Pisco was carried out by the South Korean company Daesun Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd. in collaboration with Peru's state-owned shipyard SIMA. It is an amphibious assault ship (LPD) of the Makassar class, a class originally developed in the early 2000s for the Indonesian Navy.

When the Peruvian Ministry of Defense published a memorandum on April 10, 2012 for two Makassar-class LPDs, and in early 2013, Peru paid a contract of $60 million to construct the Pisco, the first of the two LPDs designated for the Peruvian Navy. The Pisco would then be constructed in Peru by SIMA with continued cooperation from Daesun Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.

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