Peru
Peru is a town in Clinton County in the U.S. state of New York. The population was 6,772 at the 2020 census. The town was so named for its views of the Adirondack Mountains to the west and the farmlands throughout the town, resembling scenery found in the country of Peru in South America.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,590 residents
- Description: town in New York, United States
- Also known as: “Peru, New York” and “Peru, NY”
- Postal code: 12972
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schuyler Falls and Keeseville.
Schuyler Falls
Village
Schuyler Falls is a town in Clinton County, New York, United States. The population was 5,181 at the 2010 census. The town was named after Peter Schuyler, who bought the mill on the Salmon River from Zephaniah Platt. Schuyler Falls is situated 4 miles northwest of Peru.
Keeseville
Village
Photo: Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Keeseville is a hamlet in Clinton and Essex counties, New York, United States. The population was 1,815 at the 2010 census. The hamlet was named after the Keese family, early settlers from Vermont. Keeseville is situated 6 miles southeast of Peru.
Peru
- Categories: town in the United States, town of New York, and locality
- Location: Town of Peru, Clinton, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.57849° or 44° 34′ 43″ northLongitude
-73.52703° or 73° 31′ 37″ westPopulation
1,590Elevation
335 feet (102 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PGUOpen location code
87P8HFHF+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 158819541OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Peru” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيرو”
- Asturian: “Peru (Nueva York)”
- Asturian: “Peru”
- Basque: “Peru”
- Catalan: “Peru”
- Cebuano: “Peru”
- Chechen: “Перу”
- Chinese: “秘鲁”
- Czech: “Peru”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلده بيرو”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيرو”
- Finnish: “Peru”
- French: “Peru”
- German: “Peru”
- Haitian: “Peru, New York”
- Haitian: “Peru”
- Hebrew: “פרו”
- Hungarian: “Peru”
- Italian: “Peru”
- Japanese: “ペルー”
- Mazanderani: “پرو (نیویورک)”
- Mazanderani: “پرو”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Peru”
- Polish: “Peru”
- Serbian: “Перу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Peru, New York”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Peru”
- Spanish: “Peru”
- Tatar: “Перу”
- Turkish: “Peru”
- Ukrainian: “Перу”
- Urdu: “پیرو، نیو یارک”
- Uzbek: “Peru”
- Welsh: “Peru”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Peru”. Photo: Jeffrey Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0.