- Capital: Lima
- Major Cities
- Cuzco
- Arequipa
- Major Geographical Features
- Andes Mountains
- Amazon Forest
- Amazon River
- Lake Titicaca
- Official Name: Republic of Peru
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Languages
- Spanish (official)
- Quechua (official, Incan language)
- Aymara
- Lake Titicaca: world's highest navigable lake
- Peru shares control of the lake with Bolivia
- The remote Lake McIntyre is the source of the Amazon River
- Independence: 1821 from Spain
- 1980: Democratic rule established
- Government: constitutional republic
- Name Meaning: "Land of Abundance" in Quechua
- Currency: Nueva Sol
- 1/2 of Peru is the Amazon Forest
- Home to 3,700 butterfly species
- Home to the 2nd largest rodent (capybara)
- Inca Empire: largest known empire in the Americas
- Alaska is slightly larger than Peru
- Literacy: 92.9%
- The population of Lima is slightly less than 1/4 of Peru's total population
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