Peru

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Peru
A country divided into three types of landscapes with 21,462 different species of fauna and flora. The average life expectancy of a Peruvian is 68.6yrs. Peru also contains 1 of the sevenwonders of the world, Machu Picchu.

Location & Climate
Peru is situated in South America with Colombia and Ecuador north, Brazil to the east, Chile south and the Pacific ocean to the west. Split intothree by the Andes , coast, rain forest and highlands. Peru has a total area of 1,285,220km2. The coast summer temperature is from 25 to 35 degrees and winter climate is a bit lower and cloudier.The highland (Serria)has half the population living there with the day climate 20 to 25 degrees. At night its below freezing which is in the dry season. In the wet seasons it rains in the afternoon, butduring the day it is 15 to 18 degrees. In the rain forest (Selva) in summer its gets around 35 degrees and then in winter its just heavy rain. Peru has its highest peak at 6,768m and it tropicalforest is around 700,000km2 making Peru the fourth largest area of tropical forest.

Geography & Population
Peru has a population of 29,546,963.Their official language is Spanish and Quechua. There isa lake called Titicaca and it forms part of the border between Bolivia and Peru .It is 3,812m long. The people who live in Peru are Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Italians and Germans. Their presidentis Alan Garcia and the prime minister is Javier Velaquez. Only 144 people have a TV out of 1000 people and 18 people have computers out of 1000. Peru has the ancient Machu Picchu which was built bythe Incas around the year 1400 (AD) . Machu Picchu is also know as The lost city of the Incas but, is now just a famous attraction for tourists.


History & Culture
Having been overthrown by theIncas in the 15th century Peru was weak. In 1532 a man know as Franciscio Pizarro emerged and defeated the Incas emperor. Then Peru got defeated by Chile and they only took the things they wanted then...