South America

Peru

Peru is without a doubt one of the most captivating countries in . Home of the epic lost Inca citadel of and the mind-blowing Nazca Lines, this country's unique past awakens the adventurer in travellers of all sorts.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Lima and Machu Picchu.

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is the capital of Peru and its largest city. Founded in 1535 by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, the modern city is a curious mix of the modern mega city with some 'islands of modernity', large but orderly slum areas and colonial architecture in downtown.

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is the site of an ancient Inca city, high in the Andes of Peru. At 2,430 metres above sea level, this UNESCO World Heritage Site is often referred to as “The Lost City of the Incas”, is one of the most familiar symbols of the Incan Empire, and is one of the most famous and spectacular sets of ruins in the world.

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or Cusco, in the , is a fascinating city that was the capital of the Inca Empire. is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of Peru's most visited cities as it is the largest and most comfortable city from which tourists can begin visits to , the , and other Inca sites in the region.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Southern Sierra and Central Coast.

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The is the region of Peru that includes the departments of , Apurimac, and . This region is characterized by high mountains and steep, deep valleys.

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is the region of Peru that includes the departments of , , and the constitutional province of . It is a very densely populated area and the largest metropolitan area on the Pacific coast of South America.

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The region of Peru includes the departments of , , Lambayeque, La Libertad and Ancash. It offers many archaeological sites, beaches, surfing, and thermal baths.

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The region of Peru includes the departments of , Moquegua and . It is a barren desert landscape that merges into the Atacama Desert in the south, with the only green being in irrigated river valleys and remote fog-watered ravines known locally as "lomas".

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The region of Peru includes the departments of Loreto, Ucayali, Amazonas, , and San Martin. This is a vast, sparsely populated jungle region in the of northeastern Peru.

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The is the region of Peru that includes the departments of Junin, and Pasco. This is a mountainous region east of in the center of Peru.

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The is an Andean region of Peru that includes the departments of and Amazonas.

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The Peruvian is the region of Peru that includes the department of . This is the area of the Andes above about 3500 m. The stretches into neighbouring , and also and .

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is the region of Peru that includes the department of San Martin. This is a region in northern Peru. Most of the department is located in the upper part of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

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The of Peru includes the department of . This is one of the tropical areas in Peru. The most important river is the river. The main city is .

Peru

Latitude of center
-9.5° or 9° 30′ south
Longitude of center
-74.62° or 74° 37′ 12″ west
Population
29,200,000
Area
1,285,220 km² (496,226 miles²)
Elevation
306 metres (1,004 feet)
Capital
Currency
Sol (PEN)
Phone code
.pe
Internet domain
51
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399406
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3932488
Wiki­data ID
Q419
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Peru” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Перу аҳәынҭқарра”
  • Abkhazian: “Перу”
  • Achinese: “Pèru”
  • Adyghe: “Перу”
  • Afrikaans: “Peru”
  • Akan: “Peru”
  • Albanian: “Peru”
  • Albanian: “Peruja”
  • Amharic: “ፔሩ”
  • Amis: “Peru”
  • Angika: “पेरु”
  • Arabic: “بيرو”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية بيرو”
  • Aragonese: “Perú”
  • Armenian: “Պերու”
  • Arpitan: “Pèrou”
  • Assamese: “পেৰু গণৰাজ্য”
  • Assamese: “পেৰু”
  • Asturian: “Perú”
  • Atayal: “Peru”
  • Awadhi: “पेरू”
  • Aymara: “Piruw”
  • Azerbaijani: “Peru”
  • Balinese: “Péru”
  • Bambara: “Peru”
  • Bashkir: “Перу”
  • Basque: “Peru”
  • Bavarian: “Peru”
  • Belarusian: “Перу”
  • Belarusian: “Пэру”
  • Bengali: “পিরু”
  • Bengali: “পেরু”
  • Betawi: “Péru”
  • Bhojpuri: “पेरू”
  • Bishnupriya: “পেরু”
  • Bislama: “Peru”
  • Bosnian: “Peru”
  • Breton: “Perou”
  • Bulgarian: “Перу”
  • Burmese: “ပီရူး”
  • Burmese: “ပီရူးနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “pe”
  • Catalan: “Perú”
  • Catalan: “República del Perú”
  • Cebuano: “Peru”
  • Central Bikol: “Peru”
  • Central Kanuri: “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”
  • Cornish: “Peru”
  • Corsican: “Perù”
  • Corsican: “Republica di u Perù”
  • Corsican: “Ripublica di u 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”
  • Dutch: “Peruaan”
  • Dutch: “Peruanen”
  • Dutch: “Peruviaan”
  • Dutch: “Peruvianen”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Peru”
  • Dzongkha: “པེ་རུ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Перу”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيرو”
  • Esperanto: “PE”
  • Esperanto: “Peruo”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Peruo”
  • Estonian: “Peruu Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Peruu”
  • Ewe: “Peru nutome”
  • Ewe: “Peru”
  • Extremaduran: “Perú”
  • Faroese: “Peru”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Peru”
  • Fijian: “Peru”
  • Finnish: “Peru”
  • Finnish: “Perun tasavalta”
  • French: “pe”
  • French: “PE”
  • French: “PER”
  • French: “Perou”
  • French: “Pérou”
  • French: “République du Pérou”
  • Friulian: “Perù”
  • Fulah: “Peru”
  • Gagauz: “Peru”
  • Galician: “O Perú”
  • Galician: “Perú”
  • Ganda: “Peru”
  • Georgian: “პერუ”
  • Georgian: “პერუს რესპუბლიკა”
  • German: “Peru”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “pe”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “per”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Peru”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Peru”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republica del Peru”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “República del Perú”
  • Gilaki: “پرۊ”
  • 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”
  • Hawaiian: “Pelu”
  • Hebrew: “פרו”
  • Hindi: “पेरु”
  • Hindi: “पेरू”
  • Hungarian: “Peru”
  • Hungarian: “Perui Köztársaság”
  • Iban: “Peru”
  • Icelandic: “Perú”
  • Ido: “Peru”
  • Igbo: “Peru”
  • Iloko: “Peru”
  • Inari Sami: “Peru täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Peru”
  • Indonesian: “Peru”
  • Interlingua: “Peru”
  • Interlingue: “Perú”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐱᕉ”
  • Irish: “Peiriú”
  • Italian: “Perù”
  • Italian: “Repubblica del Perù”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Peruu”
  • Japanese: “ペルー”
  • Japanese: “ペルー共和国”
  • Japanese: “秘露國”
  • Javanese: “Peru”
  • Javanese: “Pèru”
  • Kabiyè: “Peruu”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Perú”
  • Kabyle: “Piru”
  • Kalaallisut: “Peru”
  • Kalmyk: “Перумудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆರು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Peru”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Перу Республика”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Перу”
  • Kashmiri: “Pēru”
  • Kashmiri: “پیٖروٗ”
  • Kashubian: “Perú”
  • Kazakh: “Перу”
  • Khmer: “ប៉េរូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Peru”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Peru”
  • Kirghiz: “Перу”
  • Komering: “Peru”
  • Komi: “Перу”
  • Kongo: “Peru”
  • Korean: “뻬루”
  • Korean: “페루”
  • Kotava: “Perua”
  • Kurdish: “Perû”
  • Ladin: “Peru”
  • Ladino: “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”
  • Low German: “Republik Peru”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Peru”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Peru”
  • Luxembourgish: “Peru”
  • Macedonian: “Перу”
  • Madurese: “Peru”
  • Malagasy: “Però”
  • Malagasy: “Peroa”
  • Malay: “Peru”
  • Malayalam: “പെറു”
  • Maltese: “il-Perù”
  • Maltese: “Perù”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Perù”
  • Manipuri: “ꯄꯦꯔꯨ”
  • Manx: “y Pheroo”
  • 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”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پيرو”
  • Narom: “Pérou”
  • Nauru: “Peru”
  • Navajo: “Dibénééz Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Perù”
  • Nepali: “पेरू”
  • Newari: “पेरु”
  • North Ndebele: “Pheru”
  • Northern Frisian: “Peruu”
  • Northern Luri: “پرو”
  • Northern Sami: “Peru dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Peru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Peru”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peru”
  • Norwegian: “Peru”
  • Novial: “Peru”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Peró”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica del Peró”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Peru”
  • Oriya: “ପେରୁ”
  • Oromo: “Peeruu”
  • Ossetian: “Перу”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ပီရူးခမ်းထီ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ပဲရူးခမ်းထီ”
  • 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 Ripuwlika”
  • 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 tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Peru”
  • Slovak: “Peru”
  • Slovak: “Peruánska republika”
  • Slovenian: “pe”
  • Slovenian: “per”
  • Slovenian: “Peru”
  • Slovenian: “República del Perú”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Peru”
  • Somali: “Beeru”
  • Somali: “Peru”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرو”
  • Spanish: “pe”
  • Spanish: “Peru”
  • Spanish: “Perú”
  • Spanish: “Republica del Peru”
  • Spanish: “República del Perú”
  • Sundanese: “Péru”
  • Swahili: “Peru”
  • Swati: “IPheru”
  • Swedish: “Peru”
  • Swedish: “República del Perú”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Peru”
  • 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: “เปรู”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐเปรู”
  • 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: “Cộng hoà Pê-ru”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Pê-ru”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Peru”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Perú”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hoà Pêru”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Peru”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Perú”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Pêru”
  • Vietnamese: “Pê-ru”
  • Vietnamese: “Peru”
  • Vietnamese: “Perú”
  • Vietnamese: “Pêru”
  • Vlaams: “Peru”
  • Vlax Romani: “Peru”
  • Volapük: “Peruvän”
  • Võro: “Peruu”
  • Walloon: “Perou”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Perú”
  • Wayuu: “Peruu”
  • Welsh: “Gwleriniaeth Periw”
  • Welsh: “Periw”
  • Welsh: “Perw”
  • Western Armenian: “Փերու”
  • Western Frisian: “Peru”
  • Western Frisian: “Perû”
  • Western Mari: “Перу”
  • Western Panjabi: “پیرو”
  • Wolof: “Peru”
  • Wu Chinese: “秘鲁”
  • Xhosa: “Peru”
  • Yakut: “Перу”
  • Yiddish: “פערו”
  • Yiddish: “פּערו”
  • Yoruba: “Peru”
  • Yoruba: “Perú”
  • Yue Chinese: “秘魯”
  • Zeeuws: “Peru”
  • Zhuang: “Biluj”
  • Zulu: “i-Peru”
  • Zulu: “Peru”
  • “ma Pelu”
  • “PE”
  • “Pelon”
  • “Pelon Axkayotl”
  • “Pelon Tlalli”
  • “PER”
  • “Peru”
  • “Perū”
  • “Peru Axkayotl”
  • “Peruu”
  • “पेरू”

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