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30 unusual facts about Perú


Abraham Valdelomar

Valdelomar was born and grew up in the port city of San Andres Pisco; his childhood in this idyllic coastal setting and within an affectionate household are often the basis for his short stories and poems.

Alfred Bergman

Alfred Henry "Big Dutch" Bergman (September 27, 1889 in Peru, Indiana – June 20, 1961 in Fort Wayne, Indiana) was a multi-sport college athlete and a professional baseball player.

Alon Shvut

In the summer 2002, a group of 90 Incan Jewish immigrants, former Christians who converted to Judaism and who hail from Trujillo, Peru moved into mobile homes on the site.

Cajabamba

Cajabamba, Peru, capital of the Cajabamba District and Cajabamba Province

Chemo

Jose "Chemo" Del Solar, is a Peruvian retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and a current coach.

Cockade of Peru

The cockade of Peru is a popular unofficial symbol of the Peruvian nation.

Desaguadero

Desaguadero, Bolivia-Peru, a binational town on the border of Bolivia and Peru

Ethnography of Argentina

The local natives that speak Quechua adopted that language by the teachings of the Spanish religious missionaries that came from Peru to today's Santiago del Estero Province; the language is quickly losing importance.

Finally, through centuries people from neighboring countries like Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru immigrated to Argentina, establishing important communities.

Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto

Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto (21 September 1920, Cajabamba – 28 October 2010, Puno) was a Peruvian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Karmei Tzur

This includes 13 families living in the adjacent Tzur Shalem outpost and eight immigrant families of Inca Jews from Trujillo, Peru, who have been housed there as part of an absorption program.

Los Andes Peruvian University

It was 1973 in Junín Region - Concepción with the cooperation of Federal Republic of Germany at that time, where a milk plant was created, that milk plant was called before as "Fongal Centro".

Orlando Romero

On October 22, he had his first bout outside Lima, when he knocked out Carlos Soriano in the second round at Trujillo.

Peru, Illinois

Maud Powell, the world renowned violinist, was born on 1112 Bluff Street, where the 251 bridge currently stands.

Peru, Indiana

Mariya Rasputina, daughter of Grigori Rasputin, was mauled by a bear in Peru while working for the Ringling Brothers Circus, but survived.

Peru, Massachusetts

On the state level, Peru is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the Second Berkshire district, represented by Paul Mark, which covers central Berkshire County, as well as portions of Hampshire and Franklin Counties.

Originally named for Oliver Partridge, one of the three purchasers of the town (along with Governor Francis Bernard), the name was officially changed to Peru in 1806, on the suggestion of the Rev. John Leland, "because it is like the Peru of South America, a mountain town, and if no gold or silver mines are under her rocks, she favors hard money and begins with a P."

Peru, New York

Francis A. Pratt (1827–1902), was a Connecticut mechanical engineer, inventor, and founder of Pratt & Whitney.

Peter Gimbel

He parachuted into the Peruvian Andes with G. Brooks Baekeland (grandson of Leo Baekeland, the inventor of Bakelite) and Peter Lake in search of the lost Inca city of Vilcabamba.

Priscila Navarro

As she learned quickly her father continued to support her talent and she enrolled in a summer course of piano at the National Cultural Institute in Trujillo, Peru, with Professor Silvia Rosales Tam.

Recta District

Recta is a district of Bongará Province in Peru.

Recuay

Recuay, Peru, a small town in the Río Santa valley in northwestern central Peru

San Carlos District, Bongará

San Carlos is a district of Bongará Province, Peru.

Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo

Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo was born on January 10, 1887 in the country estate of Vista Bella, province of Aija, Peru, department of Ancash.

Señor de Burgos Church, Amazonas

The Señor de Burgos Church is a 17th-century adobe built church located on Plaza de la Independencia in the La Laguna quarter of Chachapoyas, capital of the Amazonas Region of Peru.

Shipasbamba District

Shipasbamba is a district in Bongará Province, Peru.

Thomas Jefferson Majors

He moved to Peru, Nebraska in 1860 and entered the union army in June 1861 as a first lieutenant of Company C, First Regiment, Nebraska Volunteer Infantry.

Unity: The Latin Tribute to Michael Jackson

The leader of the project is Peruvian-American musician Tony Succar and vocals are provided by a number of leading artists in Latin music genres, especially Salsa.

Visitor center

Iperú, Tourist Information and Assistance has a nationwide network represented online by the Peru.travel website, the 24/7 line (51 1) 5748000, and 31 local offices in 13 regions in all over Peru: Lima-Callao, Amazonas, Piura, Lambayeque, La Libertad, Ancash, Arequipa, Tacna, Puno, Ayacucho, Cusco, Tumbes and Iquitos.

Wanka Quechua

It has about 300,000 speakers and three main dialects: Waylla Wanka in Huancayo and Chupaca provinces, Waycha Wanka in Concepción and Shawsha Wanka in Jauja.


Adiantum alarconianum

It has been collected in a number of locations in western Ecuador and in the Galápagos Islands, and in the nearby Tumbes Province of Peru.

Administrative divisions of Peru

Peru's territory, according to the Regionalization Law which was passed on November 18, 2002, is divided into 26 units: 25 regions (regiones; singular: región) and the Lima Province.

Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport

49 of the passengers were high school exchange students visiting Peru from Buffalo, New York.

Aloysius Bellecius

Later, Bellecius himself spent four years in the Jesuit mission at Marañón (Peru).

Antenor Orrego

Antenor Orrego was born in 1892 to José Asunción Orrego and Victoria Espinoza Villanueva in the Santa Cruz Province of the Cajamarca Region of Peru.

Batán Grande Reserved Zone

Batán Grande is a national park 40 km north east of Chiclayo, in Pitipo District, Ferreñafe Province, of Lambayeque Region of Peru.

C. fenestrata

Cotinusa fenestrata, Taczanowski, 1878, a jumping spider species in the genus Cotinusa found in Peru

Carlos Wiesse Portocarrero

After returning to Peru in 1881 he founded the Chiclayo Institute in the city of Chiclayo in collaboration with Frederick Edulino.

Carmen Moral

Since then, several orchestras have entrusted her with the post of Music Director, such as the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra (Colombia), I. Frauen-Kammerorchester von Osterreich (Vienna), the Symphony Orchestra of Mimar Sinan University (Istanbul), and, for a second time, the National Symphony orchestra of Peru.

China National Petroleum Corporation

SAPET (a CNPC subsidiary) signed a service contract with the government of Peru to operate Block VII in the Talara basin.

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

Edmund Moeller

As the most famous of his works of sculpture is considered the Liberty Memorial opened in 1927 in the city of Trujillo, Peru's freedom monument in honor of the 100 of early proclaimed the independence of Trujillo.

Elliott Gotkine

It was during this time that he interviewed Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, a world-renowned novelist, for the BBC, an event which he considers a highlight of his career.

Foreign relations of Costa Rica

Costa Rica was among the first to call for a postponement of the May 22 elections in Peru when international observer missions found electoral machinery not prepared for the vote count.

Francisco Rodón

Known for his portraits of important local, regional and world figures, such as Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, Puerto Rican patriarch Luis Muñoz Marín, Cuban dancer Alicia Alonso and Perú's Mario Vargas Llosa, Marta Traba he is also known for his landscapes and still lifes.

Gilded Barbet

The Gilded Barbet ranges in the eastern Andes drainages to the rivers of the western Amazon Basin from eastern Colombia-Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, from north to south-eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia; in Bolivia the Barbet only ranges on the headwater tributaries to the north-easterly flowing Madeira River.

Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke

He then traveled to Peru where he started work at the Javier Prado Museum of Natural History in Lima, an institution affiliated with the National University of San Marcos.

Hornby's Storm Petrel

There have also been reports of mummified fledglings and adults found in crevices in the Atacama Desert 50 km from the sea, and even reports of one fledgling being seen 150 km from the sea, and one unproven report of a bird flying into a nest in the town of Caraz in Peru, 100 km from the sea.

Incan little mastiff bat

The species is red listed as an endangered as of 2008, mainly because it is known only from a single location, near the Urubamba River in Peru.

Jagua Tattoo

Genipa americana is a species of Genipa, native to northern South America (south to Peru), the Caribbean and southern Mexico, growing in profusion in rainforests.

John Todd Zimmer

He made systematic revisions of the taxonomy of the birds of Peru and their relatives in other parts of South America, and in his later years combined this with studies of New World flycatchers, preparing the section on the Tyrannidae for Peter's Check-list of Birds of the World.

José Antonio de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Villagarcía

Other French scientists in Peru at this time were Charles Marie de La Condamine and Pierre Bouguer.

José Bardina

He was popular not only in Venezuela, but also in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Spain, after the telenovelas produced by Radio Caracas Televisión and Venevisión reached its peak during the 1970s decade.

Juan Bautista Topete

He was sent out to the Pacific in command of the frigate "Blanca," and was present at the bombardment of Valparaíso and Callao, where he was badly wounded, and in other engagements of the war between Chile and Peru.

Lomas de Lachay

The Lomas de Lachay (Lachay Hills) is a national reserve in the desert foothills of Huaura Province in Lima region of Peru.

Monte Hill Davis

Davis has toured and performed in Europe, Brazil, Peru, Balzano, Italy (the Busoni), Geneva, Switzerland, and Munich, Germany.

National University of Trujillo

Cesar Acuña Peralta, political leader; he was founder of the party Alliance for Progress and also of USS-UCV-UA Consortium comprising the Cesar Vallejo University (UCV), Lord of Sipan University (USS) and the Autonomous University of Peru (UA).

Naval Medical Research Unit Six

The facility was one of the first in Peru to be able to work with BSL-3 agents such as Brucella melitensis, Yersinia pestis and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis.

Ñawinpukyu

Ñahuimpuquio District, a district in the Huancavelica Region, Peru, and its seat Ñahuimpuquio

Nicolás Núñez

He participated in the South American championships in Arequipa, Peru, alongside Mauritius Pinilla, Mark Gonzalez, Luis Jimenez and was debuted by U. Catholic in the first division, against University of Chile.

Notoliparis antonbruuni

It was described in 2005 from a single poorly preserved specimen collected in 1966 from the hadal zone off Callao, Peru.

Oxapampa

In March 1857 a group of 300 Tyrolean and Prussian settlers, consisting mainly of poor peasant families and couples who weren't allowed to marry in their home countries, boarded the “Norton” to go to Peru.

Panettone

Peru's Antonio D'Onofrio, son of immigrants hailing from Caserta, Italy, spawned his own brand using the Alemagna formula, which he licensed along with the packaging style.

Peca

La Peca – name of a district and its main town in the Bagua Province, Amazonas Region of Peru

Peter Gorman

It is prepared with the Banisteriopsis caapi vine, usually mixed with leaves of dimethyltryptamine-species of shrubs from the genus Psychotria, which are found in the Amazon jungle in Peru where Gorman conducts his work.

Peter Greenberg

It has featured a number of world leaders including New Zealand's Helen Clark, Abdullah II of Jordan, and Peru's Alejandro Toledo.

Presbítero Maestro

This multifaceted man, born in Vitoria (Spain) in 1776, came to Peru by the end of the 18th century to start a new business.

Required navigation performance

Since 2009, regulators in Perú, Chile and Ecuador have deployed more than 25 RNP-AR approach procedures, designed in conjunction with LAN Airlines.

Ricardo Sanabria

Sanabria obtained his only cap for the Paraguay national football team on 15 August 1993 in a World Cup qualifying match against Peru (2-1 win), substituting Luis Alberto Monzón in the 83rd minute.

Ronald G. Beckett

Following the initial work in the Cardiopulmonary Sciences laboratory, Beckett began to apply endoscopy in concert with radiography on the Max Uhle collection of mummies from Pachacamac Peru at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ronda Campesina

Even though the internal conflict is now largely confined to the VRAE and has greatly diminished since 1992, the term Rondero is still used in everyday speech in Peru to signify a volunteer neighbourhood watchman either the countryside or in the sub-urbs of cities such as Lima or Trujillo.

Saby Kamalich

Kamalich first became interested in acting as a young woman when Braulio Castillo, the Puerto Rican actor, went to work in Peru.

Secret of the Incas

Secret of the Incas was filmed by Paramount Pictures on location in Peru at Cuzco and Machu Picchu, the first time that a major Hollywood studio filmed at this archeological site.

Sir Alexander Fleming College

Sir Alexander Fleming College (commonly known as Fleming College or simply Fleming) is a British school in Trujillo, northern Perú.

Taraco

As with many place names in the Titicaca Basin, a corresponding Taraco District also exists on the Peruvian, northern side of the lake in the Huancané Province in Puno.

Vichama

The name has been adopted by a theatre group from Villa El Salvador, Lima, Peru, which works worldwide, raising issues involving social responsibility and involvement.

Victor Turpo

In 1968, he graduated from the Regional School of Art Carlos Bacaflor, Arequipa, Peru and in 1980 obtained a bachelor degree in architecture with a specialization in exterior and interior at the UNSA (National University of St Augustin of Arequipa)

Wanuku Pampa

Wanuku Pampa or Wanuku Marka (hispanicized spellings and names Huánuco Pampa, Huánuco Viejo, Huánuco Marca) is an archaeological site in Peru in the Huánuco Region, Dos de Mayo Province, La Unión District.

Xstrata

On 28 May 2012 violent repression of local residents by the police in the province of Espinar, Cuzco, Peru, caused the deaths of two civilians.