Peru
Peru is without a doubt one of the most captivating countries in South America. Home of the epic lost Inca citadel of Machu Picchu and the mind-blowing Nazca Lines, this country's unique past awakens the adventurer in travellers of all sorts.Tap on the map to travel |
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Lima
Photo: Thomas Quine, CC BY 2.0.
Lima is the capital of Peru and its largest city. Founded in 1535 by the Spanish conquistador…
Machu Picchu
Photo: Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Machu Picchu is the site of an ancient Inca city, high in the Andes of Peru.
Cuzco
Cuzco or Cusco, in the Southern Sierras, is a fascinating city that was the capital of the Inca Empire.Destinations
Southern Sierra
The Southern Sierra region of Peru is characterized by high mountains and steep, deep valleys.Southern Coast
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The Southern Coast region of Peru is comparatively well developed. Many roads are paved.
Peruvian Amazon
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The Peruvian Amazon is a vast jungle region located in the Amazon basin of northeastern Peru, consisting of the states of Loreto and Ucayali.
Northern Sierra
The Northern Sierra is an Andean region of Peru, consisting of the departments of Amazonas and Cajamarca.Altiplano
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Peruvian Altiplano is the area of the Andes above about 3500 m in Peru.
Madre de Dios
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The department of Madre de Dios is one of the tropical areas in Peru.
Peru
- Type: Country with 29,200,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in South America
- Languages: Spanish, Quechua and Aymara
- Neighbors: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador
- Categories: sovereign state, republic and locality
- Location: South America
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Latitude of centre
-9.5° or 9° 30' southLongitude of centre
-74.62° or 74° 37' 12" westPopulation
29,200,000Area
1,285,220 km² (496,226 miles²)Elevation
306 metres (1,004 feet)Capital
LimaCurrency
Sol (PEN)Phone code
.peInternet domain
51OpenStreetMap ID
node 249399406OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
3932488Wikidata ID
Q419Peru Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Piru
- Abkhazian: Перу
- Abkhazian: Перу аҳәынҭқарра
- Achinese: Pèru
- Adyghe: Перу
- Afar: Peru
- Afrikaans: Peru
- Akan: Peru
- Albanian: Peru
- Albanian: Peruja
- Amharic: Peru
- Amharic: ፔሩ
- Amis: Peru
- Angika: पेरु
- Arabic: Perú
- Arabic: بيرو
- Arabic: جمهورية بيرو
- Aragonese: Perú
- Armenian: Պերու
- Arpitan: Pèrou
- Assamese: পেৰু
- Assamese: পেৰু গণৰাজ্য
- Asturian: Perú
- Avaric: Perua
- Awadhi: पेरू
- Aymara: Piruw
- Azerbaijani: Peru
- Balinese: Péru
- Bambara: Peru
- Bashkir: Перу
- Basque: Peru
- Bavarian: Peru
- Belarusian: Перу
- Belarusian: Пэру
- Bengali: পিরু
- Bengali: পেরু
- Bhojpuri: पेरू
- Bishnupriya: পেরু
- Bislama: Peru
- Bosnian: Peru
- Breton: Perou
- Bulgarian: Перу
- Burmese: ပီရူး
- Burmese: ပီရူးနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Perú
- Cebuano: Peru
- Central Bikol: Peru
- Central Kurdish: پێروو
- Chamorro: Perú
- Chavacano: Peru
- Chechen: Перу
- Cheyenne: Peru
- Chimborazo Highland Quichua: Piruw
- Chinese: Peru
- Chinese: 祕魯
- Chinese: 祕魯共和國
- Chinese: 秘魯
- Chinese: 秘鲁
- Chinese: 秘鲁共和国
- Chuvash: Перу
- Cornish: Perou
- Corsican: Perù
- Crimean Tatar: Peru
- Croatian: Peru
- Czech: Peru
- Dagbani: Peru
- Danish: Peru
- Dhivehi: ޕެރޫ
- Dimli (individual language): Peru
- Dotyali: पेरू
- Dutch: PE
- Dutch: PER
- Dutch: Peru
- Dzongkha: པེ་རུ
- Eastern Mari: Перу
- Egyptian Arabic: بيرو
- English: Republica del Peru
- English: Republic of Peru
- English: República del Perú
- English: pe
- English: per
- Esperanto: PE
- Esperanto: Peruo
- Esperanto: Respubliko Peruo
- Estonian: Peruu
- Estonian: Peruu Vabariik
- Ewe: Peru
- Ewe: Peru nutome
- Extremaduran: Perú
- Faroese: Peru
- Fiji Hindi: Peru
- Fijian: Peru
- Finnish: Peru
- Finnish: Perun tasavalta
- French: PE
- French: PER
- French: Pérou
- French: République du Pérou
- French: pe
- Friulian: Perù
- Fulah: Peru
- Gagauz: Peru
- Galician: O Perú
- Galician: Perú
- Ganda: Peru
- Georgian: პერუ
- Georgian: პერუს რესპუბლიკა
- German: Peru
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Peru
- Goan Konkani: Peru
- Goan Konkani: पेरू
- Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌿
- Greek: Περού
- Guarani: Perũ
- Guianese Creole French: Pérou
- Gujarati: પેરુ
- Haitian: Pewou
- Hakka Chinese: Peru
- Hausa: Feru
- Hausa: Peru
- Hebrew: פרו
- Hindi: पेरु
- Hindi: पेरू
- Hungarian: Peru
- Hungarian: Perui Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Perú
- Ido: Peru
- Igbo: Peru
- Iloko: Peru
- Inari Sami: Peru
- Inari Sami: Peru täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Peru
- Interlingua: Peru
- Interlingue: Perú
- Inuktitut: ᐱᕉ
- Irish: Peiriú
- Italian: Perù
- Jamaican Creole English: Peruu
- Japanese: ペルー
- Japanese: ペルー共和国
- Javanese: Peru
- Javanese: Pèru
- Kabiyè: Peruu
- Kabyle: Piru
- Kalaallisut: Peru
- Kalmyk: Перумудин Орн
- Kannada: ಪೆರು
- Kara-Kalpak: Peru
- Kashmiri: Pēru
- Kashmiri: پیٖروٗ
- Kazakh: Перу
- Khmer: ប៉េរូ
- Kikuyu: Peru
- Kinyarwanda: Peru
- Kirghiz: Перу
- Komi: Перу
- Kongo: Peru
- Korean: 뻬루
- Korean: 페루
- Kotava: Perua
- Kurdish: Perû
- Ladin: Peru
- Ladino: Peru
- Lao: Peru
- Lao: ປະເທດເປຣູ
- Lao: ເປຣູ
- Latgalian: Peru
- Latin: Peruvia
- Latvian: Peru
- Lezghian: Перу
- Ligurian: Perù
- Limburgan: Peru
- Lingala: Peru
- Lingala: Péru
- Lingua Franca Nova: Peru
- Literary Chinese: 祕魯
- Literary Chinese: 秘魯
- Lithuanian: Peru
- Livvi: Peru
- Lojban: la perus
- Lojban: lo gugdepu'e
- Lojban: perus
- Lombard: Perù
- Low German: Peru
- Lower Sorbian: Peru
- Luba-Katanga: Peru
- Luxembourgish: Peru
- Macedonian: Перу
- Madurese: Peru
- Malagasy: Peroa
- Malagasy: Però
- Malay: Peru
- Malayalam: പെറു
- Maltese: Perù
- Maltese: Repubblika tal-Perù
- Maltese: il-Perù
- Manipuri: ꯄꯦꯔꯨ
- Manx: Yn Pheroo
- Maori: Perū
- Marathi: पेरू
- Mazanderani: پرو
- Min Dong Chinese: Peru
- Min Nan Chinese: Peru
- Min Nan Chinese: Perú
- Minangkabau: Peru
- Mingrelian: პერუ
- Mirandese: Peru
- Moksha: Пэру
- Moksha: Республикась Пэру
- Mongolian: Перу
- Mongolian: ꯄꯦꯔꯨ
- Moroccan Arabic: پيرو
- Narom: Pérou
- Nauru: Peru
- Navajo: Dibénééz Bikéyah
- Neapolitan: Perù
- Nepali: पेरु
- Nepali: पेरू
- Newari: पेरु
- North Ndebele: Pheru
- Northern Frisian: Peruu
- Northern Luri: پرو
- Northern Sami: Peru
- Northern Sami: Peru dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Peru
- Norwegian Bokmål: Peru
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Peru
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Peru
- Novial: Peru
- Occitan (post 1500): Peró
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Peru
- Oriya: ପେରୁ
- Oromo: Peeruu
- Ossetian: Перу
- Pali: पेरु
- Pampanga: Peru
- Pangasinan: Peru
- Panjabi: ਪੇਰੂ
- Papiamento: Peru
- Pedi: Peru
- Persian: پرو
- Persian: پیرو
- Picard: Pérou
- Piemontese: Perù
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Peruu
- Polish: Peru
- Portuguese: Peru
- Pushto: پيرو
- Pushto: پیرو
- Quechua: Perú
- Quechua: Piruw
- Romanian: Peru
- Romansh: Peru
- Rundi: Peru
- Russia Buriat: Перу
- Russian: Перу
- Russian: Республика Перу
- Rusyn: Перу
- Sakizaya: Peru
- Samoan: Peru
- Samogitian: Peru
- Samogitian: Perū
- Sango: Perüu
- Sanskrit: पेरु
- Santali: ᱯᱮᱨᱩ
- Sardinian: Perù
- Saterfriesisch: Peru
- Scots: Peru
- Scottish Gaelic: Pearù
- Serbian: Peru
- Serbian: Перу
- Serbo-Croatian: Peru
- Shan: မိူင်းပေႇရူႉ
- Shona: Peru
- Sicilian: Perù
- Silesian: Peru
- Sindhi: پيرو
- Sinhala: පේරු
- Sinhala: පේරූ
- Skolt Sami: Peru
- Skolt Sami: Peru tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Peru
- Slovak: Peruánska republika
- Slovenian: Peru
- Somali: Beeru
- Somali: Peru
- South Azerbaijani: پرو
- Spanish: Peru
- Spanish: Perú
- Spanish: Republica del Peru
- Spanish: República del Perú
- Spanish: pe
- Sundanese: Péru
- Swahili: Peru
- Swati: IPheru
- Swedish: Peru
- Swedish: Republiken Peru
- Swedish: República del Perú
- Swiss German: Peru
- Sylheti: ꠙꠄ
- Sylheti: ꠙꠦꠞꠥ
- Tagalog: Peru
- Tajik: Перу
- Talysh: Peru
- Tamil: பெரு
- Taroko: Peru
- Tatar: Перу
- Telugu: పెరూ
- Tetum: Perú
- Thai: Peru
- Thai: ประเทศเปรู
- Thai: สาธารณรัฐเปรู
- Thai: เปรู
- Tibetan: པེ་རུ།
- Tigrinya: ፔሩ
- Tok Pisin: Peru
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Pelū
- Tosk Albanian: Peru
- Tumbuka: Peru
- Tunisian Arabic: پيرو
- Turkish: Peru
- Turkmen: Peru
- Twi: Peru
- Udmurt: Перу
- Uighur: پېرۇ
- Ukrainian: Перу
- Upper Sorbian: Peru
- Urdu: پیرو
- Uzbek: Peru
- Venetian: Perù
- Veps: Peru
- Vietnamese: Peru
- Vietnamese: Pê-ru
- Vlaams: Peru
- Vlax Romani: Peru
- Volapük: Peruvän
- Võro: Peruu
- Walloon: Perou
- Waray (Philippines): Perú
- Wayuu: Peruu
- Welsh: Gwleriniaeth Periw
- Welsh: Periw
- Welsh: Perw
- Western Frisian: Peru
- Western Frisian: Perû
- Western Mari: Перу
- Western Panjabi: پیرو
- Wolof: Peru
- Wu Chinese: 秘鲁
- Xhosa: Peru
- Yakut: Перу
- Yiddish: פּערו
- Yiddish: פערו
- Yoruba: Peru
- Yoruba: Perú
- Yue Chinese: 秘魯
- Zeeuws: Peru
- Zhuang: Biluj
- Zhuang: Peru
- Zulu: Peru
- Zulu: i-Peru
- El Perú
- Incatlān
- ma Pelu
- පෙරූ
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