Peru

Peru

Peru ranks 57th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind New Zealand, Cuba, and Nigeria. Memorable people born in present day Peru include Atahualpa, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Isabel Allende. Memorable people who died in Peru include Francisco Pizarro, Atahualpa, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Peru has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and soccer players.

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River. Peru has a population of over 32 million, and its capital and largest city is Lima. At 1,285,216 km2, Peru is the 19th largest country in the world, and the third largest in South America. Read more on Wikipedia