Peru

• 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