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Peru is a Nation located on the western side of the American continent, more precisely in South America, limiting to the north with Ecuador and Colombia, to the east with Brazil, to the southeast with Bolivia, to the south with Chile and to the west with the Ocean peaceful.

One of the substantial and unique features of Peru and that in the eyes of the rest make it undoubtedly different, are the geographic complexities that geography presents, manifested in the elevations of the Andes mountain range and the currents that originate in the Pacific Ocean and that cause the most varied climatic situations such as the Desert Coast, the Puna of the High Andes and the Tropical Forest of the Basin Amazonian.

In addition, this natural issue makes Peru a territory very rich in natural resources of various kinds.

The population density of this country, in which the Inca empire developed hundreds of years ago, is approximately 28 million people characterized by a multi-ethnic origin

, mainly, of indigenous substratum with another summation of ancestry such as Asian, European and African.

Of course, this ethnic variety, which is popularly known as the melting pot, has certainly contributed to the development of a multiplicity of proposals in fields such as the arts, the literature, the kitchen and the music. Mainly, the population Peruvian communicates through the Spanish language, however, in some regions the different native languages, including Quechua, remain firmly rooted.

Among the main activities that take place on Peruvian soil and that contribute to being its main income, are counted: agriculture, fishing, mining and some manufactured products such as textiles.

Politically, Peru is organized in a democratic presidential republic, with its powers divided, but with a strong presence and authority of whoever holds the office of president when it comes to decisions.

On the other hand, administratively, Peru It is divided into 25 departmental districts, the city of Lima being the capital and where the political power and the highest population density in the country reside.
The origin of its name Peru, comes from the term Birú, with which a local governor who populated the region a little before the arrival of the Spanish was called.

It was determined through different archaeological finds, that already in the twelfth millennium BC there was human presence and activity.

Like many other neighboring and sister nations, Peru, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries went through diverse and convulsed moments However, one of the most prominent is the one that occurred in the most recent years, more precisely in 1990, when the Peruvian of Japanese descent Alberto Fujimori rose as president and immediately dissolved the National Congress and established a new Constitution.

Prosperity politics and economic it lasted only as long as a sigh in silence and in the year 2000, its president, Fujimori, almost for life at that time, had to resign the presidency as a result of the network of corruption that was discovered around his government and one of its main men of confidence, Vladimir Montesinos.

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