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Website. www.cityofperu.org. Peru is a city in, and the county seat of, Miami County, Indiana, United States. [2] It is 73 miles (117 km) north of Indianapolis. The population was 11,073 at the 2020 census, [3] making it the most populous community in Miami County. [5] Peru is located along the Wabash River and is part of the Kokomo-Peru ...
City Region Population 2017 1: Lima: Lima: 9,562,280 2: Arequipa: Arequipa: 1,008,290 3: ... Media related to Cities in Peru at Wikimedia Commons This page was last ...
Lima (/ ˈliːmə / LEE-mə; locally [ˈlima]), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (locally [sjuˈdat de los ˈreʝes], Spanish for "City of Kings "), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking ...
14,620.31 ha (56.4493 sq mi) Website. www.zonacaral.gob.pe /en /. The Sacred City of Caral-Supe, or simply Caral, is an archaeological site in Peru where the remains of the main city of the Caral civilization are found. It is located in the Supe valley of Peru, near the current town of Caral, 182 kilometers north of Lima, 23 km from the coast ...
Machu Picchu[a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [9] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [10] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province [11] above the Sacred ...
Peru. Peru, [e] officially the Republic of Peru, [f] is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of ...
Chan Chan. Chan Chan (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaɲ.'tʃaŋ]), sometimes itself called Chimor, was the capital city of the Chimor kingdom. It was the largest city of the pre-Columbian era in South America. [1] It is now an archeological site in the department of La Libertad five kilometers (3.1 mi) west of Trujillo, Peru.
Trujillo (Spanish: [tɾuˈxiʝo]; Quechua: Truhillu; Mochica: Cɥimor) [ 12 ] is a city in coastal northwestern Peru and the capital of the Department of La Libertad. It is the third most populous city [ 13 ] and center of the third most populous metropolitan area of Peru. It is located on the banks of the Moche River, near its mouth at the ...