PERU

Map Of Peru

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Capital:Lima
Major City:Trujillo
Major City:Arequipa

4 AMAZING FACTS

• Peru contains the second largest segment of the Amazon rainforest after Brazil.
• Peru Amazon Covers %60 Perecent of the country
• Just under 30 million people live in Peru (29,849,303) as of July 2013.
• Lima is home to a quarter of the population

PERUVIAN NUEVO SOL PERU, CURRENCY

Peru is a multilingual nation. Its official language is Spanish. In the zones where they are predominant, Quechua, Aymara and other aboriginal languages also have official status. (Political Constitution, art. 48) The most common languages are Spanish, to a lesser extent, Quechua and Aymara languages, not to mention numerous minor Amazonian languages, such as Urarina.[1]

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Roman Catholic
The predominant religion is Roman Catholic, but there is a scattering of other Christian faiths. Indigenous Peruvians, however, have blended Catholicism and their traditional beliefs.

Machu Picchu-One of the most beautiful and impressive ancient sites in the world, Machu Picchu is the undisputable nr 1 among the top tourist attractions in Peru. The “Lost City of the Incas” is invisible from the Urubamba Valley below and completely self-contained, surrounded by agricultural terraces and watered by natural springs. Although known locally, Machu Picchu was largely unknown to the outside world before being rediscovered in 1911 by historian Hiram.

climate of Peru is very diverse, with a large variety of climates and microclimates, including 30 of the 32 world climates. Such a diversity is chiefly conditioned by the presence of the Andes mountains and the cold Humboldt Current

The climate on the coast is subtropical with very little rainfall. The Andes mountains observe a cool-to-cold climate with rainy summers and very dry winter. The eastern lowlands present an Equatorial climate with hot weather and rain distributed all year long.

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