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Peru has been the center of a powerful, cultural and political diffusion in the Andean sphere many centuries ago, even before Spanish conquerors invade it.

It is situated in the west center of South America with Pacific Ocean on the Andes and the Amazon. It was the nucleus of the greatest Pre Colombian Empire in all the American Continent. Peru has a surface area of 1.285.216 km2 and that is the reason, it is considered the third country with major extension in South America, after Brazil and Argentina, placing it among the most extensive 20 countries of the planet.

It also has 200 nautical miles and territorial rights on a surface area of 60 million of hectares in the Antarctic.
Lima is the capital of Peru which counts on a population of 22,048.356 and in the tourism activity has a great biological diversity, dances, habits, cultural art, landscapes, etc. Peru is traditionally divided in three regions: Coast, highlands and the Amazon which will be described below:

THE COAST
Peru has a long coastline on Pacific Ocean with desert areas, beautiful beaches and fertile valleys. Two miles out to sea, there is a Narrow Strip whose width varies between 30 and 150 km. It is made up of the territorial Sea, the islands, sand deserts and cultivation valleys of the coast. The coast is divided into three areas: north, center and south. The North is semitropical (Tumbes and Piura), from Lambayeque to Tacna is subtropical. Both of these represent the 12% of the surface.

The Peruvian coast has the shape of an extensive desert leaned on the mountains. It is specially for the Andes on the east together with the cold waters of Humboldt current that goes as far as its beaches what become this arid zone from the Sechura desert to Nazca Pampas and Atacama desert but it is interrupted sporadically by valleys where a dense clouds build up and there are frequent light drizzles (called locally garúa) in winter.

Due to the humidity prevailing in these zones, a light cold is felt, although the temperature seldom descends at 12º C; however, during the summer, the sun shines brightly and the temperature often reaches the 30º C. The central and south regions of Peruvian Coast experience two seasonal shift very marked: a winter season from April to and October and a summer season from November and March. The north region of the coast, does not have the cold waters, that means there are 300 days of sun and warm temperature through the year (until 35º C in the summer). The period of rains is between November and March.

The economy coast is very diversified because the major part of the industrial activity is in Lima, where 60% of the population lives here for this reason.


HIGHLANDS
It is a mountainous area dominated by the Andes. It reaches the 6.768 msnm in the summit of the Huascaran.

This region is characterized by an eroding morphology with canyons, plateaus of different altitudes. There are two climatic seasons very defined: a summer season between April and October; characterized by sunny days, very cold nights and lack of rains (the most pleasant months to visit it) and a rainy season between November and March in which the rainfall are abundant (generally 1.000 mm) Also, the rough of the Andes causes a slow reduction of the temperature to the highest zone known as “Puna’’ The dry climate and pleasant of the highland is ideal for the growing of an enormous variety of cultivations.

Its main cities are: Cusco, Puno, Huancavelica, Cajamarca, Apurimac and Junin that represent the 20 % of the surface.


JUNGLE
It is a tropical vegetation rain forest of the Amazon River basin where the greatest nature reserves are found. The extensive Peruvian Amazon gone through by the large Amazon River is divided into two zones very differentiated: The Highland Jungle or Ceja de Montaña (over the 700 meters above sea level) with a subtropical and mild climate and abundant rains (above 3.000 m.m. a year) between November and march and sunny days between April and October; and Lowland Jungle (below 700 meters above sea level) whose summer is between April and October and it is a pleasant month for the tourism with sunny days and high temperatures, normally superior to the 35º C. Its main cities are: Ucayali, Loreto, Madre de Dios, and Tarapoto that represent the 60% of the surface.
   
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