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 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Atahualpa, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Memorable people who died in Peru include Francisco Pizarro, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and Atahualpa. Peru has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players 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. At 1.28 million km2, Peru is the 19th largest country in the world, and the third largest in South America. Read more on Wikipedia