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Republic of Peru

A country of western South America on the Pacific Ocean. Inhabited since at least the 9th millennium B.C., it was the center of the Inca empire established after the 12th century A.D.
The Spanish under Pizarro conquered the empire in 1533 and set up in 1542 the viceroyalty of Peru, which at one time included Panama and all of Spanish South America except Venezuela. Peru achieved full independence from Spain in 1824.

Location	:	Western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador
Capital	:	Lima (largest city)
Area	:	total: 1,285,220 sq km
Area - comparative	:	slightly smaller than Alaska
Coastline:	:	2,414 km
Elevation extremes	:	lowest point: Pacific Ocean highest point: Nevado Huascaran 6,768 m
Population	:	27,925,628 (July 2005 est.)

As the cradle of South America's most advanced native American civilizations, Peru has a valuable and unique heritage among the nations of the southern continent. It encompasses a past that reaches back over 10,000 years in one of the most harsh and inhospitable, if spectacular, environments in the world--the high Andes of South America. The culmination of Andean civilization was the construction by the Incas, in little more than one hundred years, of an empire that spanned a third of the South American continent and achieved a level of general material wellbeing and cultural sophistication that rivaled and surpassed many of the great empires in world history.

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