- Peru is a South American country located along the Pacific Ocean with a population that is 45% indigenous Amerindian, 37% mixed race, and 15% white. - The country has a diverse landscape that includes a coastal plain, high Andes mountains, and eastern lowland jungle. Agriculture and mining are key industries. - Peru was home to advanced pre-Columbian civilizations like the Inca Empire, which was conquered by the Spanish in the 16th century. It is now a constitutional republic with Spanish and Quechua as official languages.

4. Lima, Peru – capital city

5. Constitutional Republic 1993 established the present form of Peru Government which is constitutional republic form of government.. Before 1992 Peru had a civilian government with a bicameral legislature.

8. Peruvian people Proud Incan heritage

9. Cusco Panoramic Cuzco from Sacsayhuaman

10. The finely crafted Inca walls of Sacsayhuaman, built on a hill above Cuzco .

11. Machu Pichu A recent report from the BBC suggests that this site may have been discovered-and ransacked, more than 40 years before Hiram Bingham reported its existence to the Western world.

12. Since Inca times, workers have redirected a salt-laden spring onto these extensive terraces for evaporation into salt.

13. Mt. Alpamayo,

14. The zone between 3,000 and 4,500 meters of elevation in the Andes of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and northern Peru, comprise wet and cold environments called Páramos. Paramos

15. Nazca Desert, Peru.