Geography of Peru Geography of Peru The Altiplano ( Spanish for high plain), where the Andes are at their widest, is the most extensive area of high plateau on earth outside of Tibet. It is an area of inland drainage lying in the central Andes, occupying parts of Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru. Its height averages about 3,300 meters (11,000 feet), somewhat less than that of Tibet. Unlike the Tibetan plateau, however, the Altiplano is dominated by the massive peaks of active volcanoes to the west. The Atacama Desert, the driest area on the whole planet, lies to the southwest of the Altiplano. ...more on Wikipedia about "Altiplano"
This is a list of the extreme points of Peru, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location. ...more on Wikipedia about "Extreme points of Peru"
(Geography of Peru) Geographic coordinates: ...more on Wikipedia about "Geography of Peru"
The Gulf of Guayaquil is a large body of water of the Pacific Ocean in western South America. Its northern limit is the city of Salinas, in Ecuador, and its southern limit is Punta Pariñas, in Peru. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gulf of Guayaquil"
The Lima and Callao Metropolitan Area ( Spanish: Área Metropolitana de Lima y Callao) is an area formed by the conurbation of the Peruvian cities of Lima (the nation's capital) and Callao. It is the largest metropolitan area in Peru, the fourth-largest in the Americas and the 16th on Earth. The conurbation process started to be evident in the 1980s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lima and Callao Metropolitan Area"
The Peru-Chile Trench, also called Atacama Trench, is a submarine trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 100 miles (160 km) off the coast of Peru and Chile. It reaches a maximum depth of 26,460 feet (8,065 m) below sea level in Richards Deep and is approximately 3,666 miles (5,900 km) long; its mean width is 40 miles (64 km) and it covers an expanse of some 228,000 square miles (590,000 square km). ...more on Wikipedia about "Peru-Chile Trench"
Literally meaning "young towns", pueblos jóvenes is the nickname given to the vast shanty towns that surround Lima and other cities of Peru. Many of these towns have devolped into important districts in Lima such as Villa el Salvador and Comas ...more on Wikipedia about "Pueblos jóvenes"
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The Sechura desert is a desert ecoregion of coastal Peru. The name sechura derives from a culture that developed called the SEC, around the year 400 B.C. In 1728 the old Sechura town was destroyed by a tsunami and moved to its current location. During El Niño years, flooding is not uncommon; in 1998 the runoff from the floods poured into the coastal Sechura Desert. Where there had been nothing but arid hardscrabble waste for 15 years, suddenly, amazingly, there lay the second largest lake in Peru: 90 miles [145 kilometers] long, 20 miles [30 kilometers] wide, and ten feet [three meters] deep, with occasional parched domes of sand and clay poking up eerily from the surface. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sechura Desert"
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