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Satellite imagery of Peru Topographic map of Peru Political map of Peru Vegetation of Peru Peru is a country on the central western coast of South America facing the Pacific Ocean . It lies wholly in the Southern Hemisphere , its northernmost extreme reaching to 1.8 minutes of latitude or about 3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi) south of the equator .
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The oldest rocks in Peru date to the Precambrian and are more than two billion years old. Along the southern coast, granulite and charnockite shows reworking by an ancient orogeny mountain building event. Situated close to the Peru-Chile Trench, these rocks have anomalously high strontium isotope ratios, which suggest recent calc-alkaline ...
An enlargeable topographic map of Peru. Geography of Peru. Peru is: a megadiverse country; Location: Southern Hemisphere; Western Hemisphere. Americas. Latin America. South America; Time in Peru. Time zone: UTC-05; Extreme points of Peru. High: Huascarán 6,768 m (22,205 ft) – highest point in the Tropics; Low: South Pacific Ocean 0 m; Land ...
Peru is considered to be among 17 of the most megadiverse countries in the world. [5] With over 1,850 species of birds, [6] it has the world's second most diverse avian community, after Colombia. [7] National Parks are places where the wild flora and fauna are protected and preserved. Natural resources exploitation and human settlements are ...
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Peru/collab, subsection of collaboration template, to change content when new collaborations arise. Stubs {}, to be added to Peru related stub articles. {{Peru-bio-stub}}, to be added to peruvian biographical stub articles. {{Peru-geo-stub}}, to be added to geography related stub articles. Award
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