With
1.285.215.6 km2, the Perú it is the
third country of greater extension in South
America, after Brazil and Argentina, locating
itself thus between the 20 more extensive
countries of the planet.
It has, in addition,
200 miles marine and right territorial on
a surface of 60 million hectares in the Antártida.
Peru is organized politically
in 25 regions (Amazon, Ancash, Apurímac,
Arequipa, Ayacucho, Cajamarca, Callao, Cusco,
Huancavelica, Huánuco, Ica, Junín,
the Freedom, Lambayeque, File-Provinces, Loreto,
Mother of God, Moquegua, Pasco, Piura, Puno,
San Martin, Tacna, Tumbes and Ucayali), in
addition to the capital, Lima Metropolitan,
that estatus does not have regional.
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27.000.000 of habitants.
- Urbana: 72,3%
- Rural: 27,7%
Peru is a country of
all the bloods. Through its history, Peru
has been the point of contact of different
races and cultures. To the native population
they were added, does near 500 years, the
Spaniards.
Product of that encounter,
enriched later with the European Asian, black
migrations and, emerges the Peruvian, representing
man of a nation whose ethnic wealth constitutes
one of his more important characteristics.
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- Castilian: 80.3%
- Quechua: 16.2%
- Other languages: 3.0%
- Foreign Languages: 0.2%
Like part of its cultural
wealth, in Peru they coexist a multitude of
native languages. Although the Spanish is
the language of common use, quechua is an
important inheritance of the past Inca and
in many regions of the country still it is
spoken with slight variants according to the
zone.
They exist, in addition,
other dialectos like aymara (Puno) and diverse
amazonian languages that are distributed in
a surprising variety of families of whom,
still in these days, they survive near 15
linguistic trunks, giving rise to 43 different
languages.
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The official currency
of Peru is the New Sun (s.) divided in 100
céntimos. It circulates in currencies
of 5, 10, 20 and 50 céntimos, 1, 2
and 5 new suns and in tickets of S/.10, 20,
50, 100 and 200.
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Peru is a democratic
republic. The President and the members of
the Congress are chosen every five years by
universal voting. Present President Constitucional
of Peru is the Dr Alexander Toledo Manrique
(2001-2006).
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Católicos :
89,03%
Evangélicos: 6,73%
Otras Religiones: 2,56%
Ninguna Religión: 1.65%
Peru is a believing town by nature: the diversity
of beliefs and the freedom of cult pronounce
in a variety of celebrations and rituals that
gather so much the catholic fervor, part of
the Spanish inheritance, like the misticismo
of the millenarian preHispanic cultures.
