Place:Peru

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Place Information
Name
Peru
Alternate names
Perú     (Getty Vocabulary Program)
Pérou     (Cassell's French Dictionary (1981) p 555; UN Terminology Bulletin (1993) p 74)
Republic of Peru     (Wikipedia)
República del Perú     (Britannica Book of the Year (1991) p 680; Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 692)
República del Perú     (Wikipedia)
Type
Country
Coordinates
10°S 76°W
Contained Places

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Inhabited place
Urubamba
Region
Amazonas
Ancash
Apurímac
Arequipa
Ayacucho
Cajamarca ( 1855 - )
Callao
Cuzco
Huancavelica
Huánuco ( 1869 - )
Ica ( 1866 - )
Junín
La Libertad
Lambayeque
Lima
Loreto
Madre de Dios
Moquegua
Pasco
Piura ( 1861 - )
Puno ( 1822 - )
San Martín
Tacna ( 1875 - )
Tumbes
Ucayali
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source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Peru officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America, bordering Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil to the east, Bolivia to the south-east, Chile to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

Peru was the cradle of the Inca empire, and later the seat of the Viceroyalty of Peru which had jurisdiction over all of Spanish South America. It is the home of many indigenous ethnic groups.

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