About PERU

Peru is located in western South America and covers an area of 496,226.22 square miles, and is the third-largest country in South America after Brazil and Argentina, ranking it amongst the world's 20 largest nations.

To the north it shares a border with Ecuador and Colombia, to the east is Brazil and to the south-east is Bolivia, with Chile to the south. Its geography varies from the arid plains of the Pacific coast to the peaks of the Andes Mountains and the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin. An extraordinary variety of eco-systems shelters a wide diversity of animals and plants. The Peruvian population, estimated at 29, 5 million, is multi-ethnic, including Amerindians, Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Geopolitically is divided into 25 regions and the province of Lima, which is also the capital of the country.

The main spoken language is Spanish, although a significant number of Peruvians speak Quechua or other native languages. This mixture of cultural traditions has resulted in a wide diversity of expression in fields such as art, cuisine, literature and music. Government.

Peru is a constitutional democratic republic. The president and members of Congress are elected every five years by universal suffrage. The current constitutional president of Peru is Ollanta Humala Tasso.

Religion

Roman Catholic: 89,03%, Evangelical: 6,73%, Other religions: 2,56%, Any Religion: 1.65%.

Tourism

As a country with an ancient history also has a diverse geography and cultures, in Peru can make different types of tourism, depending on the interest of each visitor, such as world heritage archaeology, urban tourism, living cultures, popular festivities, experiential tourism, adventure tourism and others.

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Gastronomy

Peruvian cuisine is considered one of the most varied and important in the world, thanks to pre-Inca heritage, Inca, Spanish 774 years of coexistence with Muslim immigration and African, French, Chinese-Cantonese, Japanese and Italian mainly to the nineteenth century. Peru offers a large variety of typical potages that are constantly evolving, impossible to list them in full.

Suffice it to mention that along the Peruvian coast alone there are more than two thousand different soups and the country has more than 250 traditional desserts.

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