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PERU LAND OF THE INCA EMPIRE
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Ubication Peru is located on South America's central Pacific coast. The world's twentieth-largest nation, it borders Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile to the east and south, and Colombia and Ecuador to the north.
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Peruvian Flag The colors represent the blood and peace. The Peruvian coat of arms includes the vicuña, the quinoa tree, and a cornucopia of gold
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Lima Lima, the capital, is located on the central coast. Peru's 1,326,074 square kilometers (512,000 square miles) make it roughly the size of Alaska. Lima is approximately the size of Rhode Island.
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Main Square Government Palace
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Main Square Another view of main square.
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Lima-coast
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Mountains
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Jungle Amazon river.
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Agriculture More than 100 different kinds of potatoes.
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Fishing Another activity in Peru.
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Machupicchu Machu Picchu was built around 1450, at the height of the Inca Empire. The construction of Machu Picchu appears to date from the period of the two great Incas, Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui (1438–71) and Tupac Inca Yupanqui (1472–93).It was abandoned just over 100 years later, in 1572, as a belated result of the Spanish Conquest
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Nazca Lines Hummingbird.
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Nazca-Lines Monkey
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Nazca-Lines Spider
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The sun gate Tiahuanaco.
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Chimu Tumi.
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Mochica Huaco retrato.
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