Perú

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Arequipa, Trujillo, Chiclayo — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Lima's Historic Centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contains some of the finest Spanish colonial baroque architecture in the Americas, including the Cathedral built over an Inca palace — but the city is equally defined by its Pacific clifftop district of Miraflores, where paragliders launch over the ocean.

Los principales idiomas hablados son español, Quechua, que reflejan el patrimonio cultural del país y abren puertas a una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Perú se contacta mediante el código +51. Peruvians maintain a dual cosmology in which Andean spiritual practices — offerings to Pachamama, divination with coca leaves — coexist with Catholicism in a syncretism refined over 500 years of negotiated belief.

Perú comparte sus fronteras con Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC-05:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Ceviche has been prepared on Peru's Pacific coast for at least 2,000 years, with pre-Inca peoples marinating fish in tumbo fruit juice — the Spanish later introduced lime — and today Lima's ceviché bars are considered serious culinary destinations, with the dish officially designated as cultural heritage by the Peruvian government.

Peru's greatest footballing moment remains Teófilo Cubillas at the 1970 and 1978 World Cups — his thunderous free-kicks against Scotland in 1978 made him one of the tournament's all-time top scorers and still carry the weight of a golden era the country has spent decades trying to recapture.

The Amazon Basin covers 60 percent of Peru's territory, and the Madre de Dios region contains some of the planet's highest documented biodiversity — Manu National Park alone holds more bird species than the entire continental United States.