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27 unusual facts about Peru


Alejandro Romualdo

Alejandro Romualdo (December 19, 1926 Trujillo, Peru – May 27, 2008 Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian poet of the 20th century.

Caboblanco

Giff Hoyt (Bronson), a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies.

Carlos Oquendo de Amat

Carlos Oquendo de Amat (April 17, 1905 – March 6, 1936) was a Peruvian poet born in Moho, generally recognized by his only book of poetry 5 Meters of Poems, first published on 1927, which is an accordion book or pop-up book which extends to approximately 5 meters in length when fully opened.

Chachapoyas

Chachapoyas, Peru, the capital of the province with the same name and the Amazonas Region

Chancaybaños Reserved Zone

The Chancaybaños Reserved Zone (Zona Reservada Chancaybaños) is a protected area in Peru located in the Cajamarca Region, Santa Cruz Province, Chancaybaños District.

Chemo

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

Coalition of Hope

From 1960 through 1974, the People to People Health Foundation operated the former USS Consolation (AH-15) as the SS HOPE, cruising to bring medical relief to underdeveloped areas of the world, including South Vietnam, Peru, Ecuador, Guinea, Nicaragua, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Jamaica, and Brazil.

Desaguadero

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

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.

For his work in the Freedom Monument in the city of Trujillo, received from Peruvian government the highest title that grants the state: The Medal The Sun of Peru and also the title of professor, died in Dresden, a city that had longer residence time.

Estadio Miguel Grau

There are two stadiums in Peru named Estadio Miguel Grau.

José Francisco Gana

Gana with his battalion captured the City of Huaras with the whole garrison, and, as a consequence, the provinces of Trujillo, Lambayeque, and Piura pronounced for the insurrection, leading to the whole northern portion of Peru being wrestled from the rule of the viceroy.

Mallika Kapur

Her brothers name is Nikhil Kapur who is currently studying in La Rinconada, Peru.

Marpa

Marpa, Peru, ruins of a pre-Columbian town located along the Cotahuasi Canyon in the Andes range of southern Peru

Military history of Ecuador

As a result Ecuador had to renounce the territories Tumbes, Jaén and Maynas.

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, New York

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

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.

Querco

Querco, Peru, a town, capital city of the Querco District, a district of the Huaytará 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.

Sulca

Sulca is a hispanized quechua surname common in 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.

Túpac Huallpa

Túpac Huallpa and his people may not have understood that the Spaniards were using him to take control of Peru and steal the gold treasures of his country.

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.


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).

Aqumayu

Acomayo District, a district in the Acomayo Province, Cusco Region, 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.

Burmeister's porpoise

Its range appears to be continuous in coastal waters from northern Peru in the Pacific round Tierra del Fuego and up to southern Brazil in the Atlantic.

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.

Cerro Sechín

Cerro Sechín (also Sechín de las Estelas) is an archaeological site in Casma Province of Ancash Region in northern 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.

Copa Movistar

The Copa Movistar is a surfing competition, currently presented by Rip Curl and Samsung, a 2-Star World Qualification Series event held at the San Bartolo District in Lima, Peru.

Defion Internacional

Defion Internacional is a Lima, Peru based Private Military Company that recruits and trains security personnel, logistics personnel, administrative personnel and professional services personnel to provide world wide services.

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.

Estadio Juan Maldonado Gamarra

Estadio Juan Maldonado Gamarra is a multi-use stadium in Cutervo Province, Peru.

Flora Huayaquilensis

Dr. Eduardo Estrella was working and researching in the archives of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid Spain in 1985 when he found the documentary of the "Fourth Division," for the expedition of Ruiz and Pavon in Peru and Chile, Dr. Estrella found a large number of descriptions of plants whose origin corresponds to the places that belong to the Royal Audience of Quito.

Frères des Hommes

Cenca in Peru walks with Lima poorest people, it develops economic activities for them and it helps them to become collective subjects.

Geology of Bolivia

The bend occurs at the latitude of Cochabamba and corresponds to eastward proyection of the Arica elbow, the bend of south Amicas coastline at the Peru-Chile border.

Georgina Rylance

The same year, she spent a month in Antarctica and several weeks in Peru working in an orphanage.

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.

Hipódromo de Monterrico

The Hipódromo de Monterrico is a Thoroughbred horse racing facility opened in 1960 in Lima, Peru.

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.

It is thought to breed between March and July, as this is when fledglings are regularly seen at sea around Lima (in Peru) and Antofagasta (in Chile).

House of the Tiger King

He put together an expedition and set out into Peru’s Madre de Dios jungle, the densest cloud forest on earth.

Human trafficking in Bolivia

The government continued to operate four specialized anti-trafficking police units in La Paz, El Alto, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, and made preparations to open an additional six units along the frontiers with Brazil, Argentina, and Peru in 2010 with the support of a foreign government.

Islam in Peru

The Latin American Muslim Unity (LAMU) organization, based in Fresno, California, United States, has drawn up a proposal for the first Islamic orphanage in Peru, although it has not yet materialized.

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 Antonio Álvarez de Arenales

Juan Antonio Álvarez de Arenales (Reinoso, Spain, June 13, 1770 - Moraya, Bolivia, December 4, 1831) was an Argentine general of Spanish origin (considered also a Bolivian for his activities in Bolivia) that fought in the war for the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, Chile and Peru.

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.

Las Delicias, Trujillo

Las Delicias is a coastal town and resort located in Moche district, in Trujillo city, La Libertad Region, Peru.

María Santos Corrales

María Santos Corrales (November 1, 1797 – 1881) was the inspiration of Peru's famous poet and patriot soldier, Mariano Melgar; she is forever immortalized as "Silvia" in his poetry.

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).

Ñawinpukyu

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

Néstor Isasi

Néstor Isasi (born 9 April 1970 in Encarnación, Paraguay) is a former Paraguayan footballer who played in clubs of Paraguay, Brazil, Chile and Peru.

Nick Leslau

Thanks to his friend Tom Hunter, Leslau became interested in solving the world's problems: in 2006 they had a working holiday in Ayacucho, Peru; in 2007 to Malawi to help build an orphanage.

Pacaraos Quechua

Pacaraos Quechua is a variety of Quechua spoken until the middle of the 20th century in the community of Pacaraos (Pacaraos District) in the Peruvian Lima Region in the Chancay valley up to 3000 m above sea level.

Peruvian Pacific sardine

The most important location of the fish in Peru is Paita, Parachique, Santa Rosa, and Chimbote.

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.

Pyrrhulina laeta

Pyrrhulina laeta, known as the half-banded Pyrrhulina or half-lined Pyrrhulina, is a fish that lives near Pebas, Peru, and in tributaries of the Ampiyacu River.

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.

Rodolfo Manzo

Rodolfo Manzo (born June 5, 1949 in Cañete) is a retired professional football defender from Peru.

Roosterfish

The roosterfish, Nematistius pectoralis, is a game fish found in the warmer waters of the East Pacific from Baja California to Peru.

San Jose de Moro

The site of San José de Moro is located in a small community along the banks of the Chamán River in the Jequetepeque District valley of Peru.

Santa Rosa de Yavari

Santa Rosa de Yavari is an Amazonian town in the Mariscal Ramón Castilla Province in the Loreto Region of Peru, located in an island in the Amazon River in front of the cities of Leticia (Colombia) and Tabatinga (Brazil).

Sir Alexander Fleming College

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

Spotted houndshark

The spotted houndshark, Triakis maculata, is a hound shark of the family Triakidae found on the continental shelves in the eastern Pacific from the Galapagos Islands and Peru to northern Chile, between latitudes and 30° S.

Vilcanota

Cordillera Vilcanota, a mountain range in the Cusco Region, Peru, including a dozen mountains above 6000 meters

William McDermott

The Principal Consecrator was Enrique Pélach y Feliú, Bishop of Abancay and Co-Consecrators were Alcides Mendez Castro, titular Archbishop of Pederoniana and Military Ordinary for Peru, and Florencio Romani, Bishop of Huancavélica.

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.