INFO ABOUT  PERU
 
 
FOR THEIR STRATEGIC LOCATION, THE PERU IS A PRIVILEGED DESTINATION FOR THE TOURISM AND ONE OF THE MOST ATTRACTIVE MARKETS OF INVESTMENTS. HEIR OF MILLENNIAL CULTURES AND OF A RICH COLONIAL TRADITION, THE PERU IS, ALSO, AN IT PIERCES MAGIC THAT ONE OF THE BIGGEST BIODIVERSITIES IN THE PLANET HARBORS: A TRUE HEARTH OF DIFFERENT CULTURES THAT COHABIT FORGING BETTER WITH THEIR EFFORT ONE TOMORROW'S PROMISE.
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EXTENSION:
With 1.285.215 km2, the Peru is the third country of more extension in America of the South, after Brazil and Argentina, being located this way among the 20 more extensive countries of the planet.

It possesses, also, 200 marine miles and territorial rights on a surface of 60 million hectares in the Antártida.

The Peru is divided in 24 departments, more the Constitutional County of the Callao. The capital of the country is Lima.

The Andean system is the great computer of the Ecology of the Peru,, it occupies between the 28 and 30% of the national territory, where inhabits 35.5% the Peruvians. The mountains in the world occupy 20% of the surface and they harbor to the population's 10%.

The Mountain range of you Walk them it is a very fragile, only ecosystem, an enormous genetic bank of great biological diversity.
 
POPULATION:
25.662.000 of inhabitants.
- Urban: 72,3
- Rural: 27,7

The Peru is a country of all the blood. Through their history, the Peru has been the point of encounter of different races and cultures. To the native population they were added, near 500 years, the Spaniards ago. Product of that encounter, enriched later on with the migrations of black, Asian and European, the Peruvian man, representative of a nation emerges whose ethnic wealth characteristic one of his more important ones constitutes.

 
FLORA:
The Peru is the second country in the world in extension of amazon tropical forests with 756,866 km2. In Yanamono, Iquitos, a world record was possible when being 308 species different from trees for hectare.
The amazon forests are biodiversos and they highlight for their fine cedar species, mahogany, lupuna, castaña, moena, ishpingo, and many more.
Other ecosystems grove are the Tropical Forest of the Pacific with their mangroves, the Equatorial Dry Forest with their locusts, the Moor of dwarf trees and the Savanna of Palms. Also the Andean forests of queuña, quishuar, colle, romerillo and goad rodales.

FAUNA: The Peru is a country with a very varied fauna that includes thousands of species, endemic and not very well-known many of them. The main groups of species are the mammals (460 species), birds (1,806 species), reptiles (297 species), amphibians (332 species) and fish (1,600 species)

LANGUAGE AND RELIGION Spanish and the Quechua one are the official Languages of the Peru, it is also spoken Aymara and other dialects. 90% of the Peruvians is Catholic, other allowed religions and a small number of Protestants exist, in minor I number the free Christian.
 
CURRENCY:
The official currency of the Peru is the New Sun (S /.) divided in 100 cents. It circulates in currencies of 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents, 1, 2 and 5 new suns and in notes of S / .10, 20, 50, 100 and 200.
 
GOVERNMENT:
The Peru is a democratic republic. The President and the members of the Congress are chosen every five years by universal voting. The current Constitutional President from the Peru is the Dr. Alejandro Toledo Manrique (2001-2006).
 
ECONOMY: The economic activity is divided in the agriculture sectors, cattle raising, mining, industry, tourism and services like education, health, small and medium company. The sector that more benefits provide to the country is the agriculture.
 
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