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DEMOGRAPHICS & HISTORY

Peru

Facts & Figures

• Area: 496,225 square miles

• Capital: Lima

• Languages: >[LYT^S LYO <`PNS`L L]P _SP ZʯNTLW WLYR`LRP^& ,dXL]L LYO L WL]RP Y`XMP]
of minor Amazonian languages are also spoken.

• Location: Peru is bordered by Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador.

• Geography: Peru is the third-largest country in South America. Topped by towering
Andean peaks, its landscape also includes a portion of the Amazon River Basin and an
extension of Chile’s Atacama Desert along the coast. Three of Peru’s largest cities—Lima,
Trujillo, and Chiclayo—are in the coastal desert region. The city of Iquitos (population
400,000) is the capital of Peru’s Amazon region on the eastern slope of the Andes. It is
accessible only by airplane and Amazon riverboat.

• Population: 30,444,999 (2015 estimate)

• Religions: =ZXLY .L_SZWTN # 0aLYRPWTNLW Z_SP] `Y^[PNTʭPO
or none 2.9%

• Time zone: Peru is on Peru Time, which is the same time zone as U.S. EST. When it is
6am in Washington D.C., it is 6am in Lima.

National Holidays: Peru

In addition to the holidays listed below, Peru 07/28 Independence Day
celebrates a number of national holidays
07/29 Independence Day (Day 2)
that follow a lunar calendar, such as
0L^_P] ?Z ʭYO Z`_ TQ dZ` bTWW MP _]LaPWTYR 08/30 Santa Rosa De Lima
during these holidays, please visit www.
timeanddate.com/holidays. 10/08 Battle of Angamos

01/01 New Year’s Day 11/01 All Saints Day

05/01 Labor Day / May Day 12/08 Feast of the Immaculate Conception

06/29 St. Peter & St. Paul 12/25 Christmas Day

Historical Overview of Peru
Early History

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