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unusual facts about Peruvian



1996 Chimbote earthquake

The tsunami affected the Peruvian coastal area from Pacasmayo, La Libertad to Callao.

Adele Morales

Morales was descended from a Spanish mother and Native Peruvian father; she grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a Bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fancher (who together with Mailer and Dan Wolf founded The Village Voice) and briefly with Jack Kerouac.

Agustín Jerónimo de Iturbide y Huarte

The daughter, called Doña Jesusa de Iturbide, would later marry the prominent Peruvian politician Nicolás de Piérola (They were first cousins).

Aje

Ajegroup, a Peruvian company that produces syrups and nonalcoholic beverages

Alzamora

Augusto Vargas Alzamora (1922-2000), Peruvian Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima

América Televisión

While the station carried both the 1970 and 1978 World Cups, in which the Peruvian national team was highly competitive, and the station added a news program in Quechua in the early 1970s (before its revival as an official language of the country), a major change came about when the military government of the time expropriated 51% of the shares in the station.

Battle of La Concepción

Concepcion is one of Peru's Heroic Cities and on the day of the Peruvian victory, in its honor a national youth Marching band competition is held here.

Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos

A detachment of ninety horsemen of the Cazadores a Caballo Cavalry Regiment, led by Lt. Col. Ambrosio Letelier scouted the terrain until they reached Lurin, finding no presence of Peruvian troops.

Cabo Blanco, Peru

The wave is a hollow powerful left and is reckoned the "Peruvian Pipeline", referring to the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii.

In 1979, Peruvian surfer Gordo Barreda discovered the wave when he visited the village to check the surf in the area.

Caitro Soto

Pedro Carlos Soto de la Colina (October 23, 1934, San Luis, Cañete Province, Peru – July 19, 2004, Lima), popularly known as Caitro Soto, was an Afro-Peruvian musician and composer.

Demographics of Peru

The Afro-Peruvian population is concentrated mostly in coastal cities south of Lima, such as that of those found in the Ica Region, in cities like Cañete, Chincha, Ica, Nazca and Acarí in the border with the Arequipa Region.

Dúber Zapata

Dúber Alexander Zapata Carrillo (born 2 November 1976 in Zorritos) is a Peruvian footballer who plays primarily as a full back.

Ecuadorian Army

Subsequently Peruvian troops withdrew from the invaded El Oro province.

Ecuadorian Navy

On the 25th July 1941 during the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War, the gunboat Calderon commanded by Rafael Morán Valverde encountered the Peruvian destroyer Almirante Villar in the Jambeli channel.

Everton Cemetery

The head of Australian Aborigine warrior Yagan (c.1795-1833), after being kept in Liverpool Museum, was buried in the cemetery in 1964 in a box also containing a Peruvian mummy and a Maori's head that had also been kept by the museum.

Gérard de Cortanze

He translated works of Spanish writers, such as the Mexican Jose Emilio Pacheco, the Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, Argentine exile in France Juan José Saer, the notebooks of the Spanish painter Antonio Saura (1930–1998), and poems, like those of Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892–1938) and the Chilean Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948).

Goldbach's weak conjecture

In 2012 and 2013, Peruvian mathematician Harald Helfgott released a pair of papers claiming to improve major and minor arc estimates sufficiently to unconditionally prove the weak Goldbach conjecture.

Hans Heinrich Brüning

Hans Heinrich (Enrique) Brüning (Aug. 20, 1848, Hoffeld - July 2, 1928, Bordesholm) was a German-born Peruvian ethnologist and collector of antiquities.

Henry A. Peirce

He then went around Cape Horn to Peru, where he was employed as Peruvian Consul to Hawaii.

History of the Torneo Descentralizado

Melgar finished the 1981 season 1 point ahead of Universitario, who lost to Deportivo Municipal in the playoff matches to decide the second Peruvian team in the 1982 Copa Libertadores.

Horacio Calcaterra

Then in January 2011 he joined recently promoted Peruvian club Unión Comercio.

Javier Velásquez

Ángel Javier Velásquez Quesquén (born 12 March 1960 in Etén, Peru) is a Peruvian politician (APRA).

Juan Velasco Alvarado

In 1999 General Pinochet claimed that if Peru had attacked Chile during 1973 or even 1978, Peruvian forces could have penetrated deep south into Chilean territory, possibly reaching the southern Chilean city of Copiapó located half way to Santiago.

Juan Williams Rebolledo

The government plan was to attack the Peruvian navy immediately, as it was undergoing repairs in the port of Callao and was thus virtually defenseless.

La Chorrera, Colombia

The municipality was once a notable site for rubber production, exploited by the Peruvian Julio César Arana brothers at the turn of the 20th century, north of the Putumayo River.

Left-wing terrorism

In Latin America, groups that became actively involved in terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s included the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, the Peruvian Shining Path, and the Colombian 19th of April Movement.

Mameria

Between 1984 and 1989 the American explorer Gregory Deyermenjian made five expeditions to Mameria—for three of which he was accompanied by Peruvian explorer Paulino Mamani H.--conducting anthropological as well as archaeological research concerning the area's Machiguenga inhabitants and ancient archaeological remains.

Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua

Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua (born in Tamburco, 1745; died in Cusco, May 18, 1781), was an important indigenous leader against Spanish oppression in South America and a martyr for Peruvian independence.

Nicholas Alkemade

Juliane Koepcke German teenager who survived a 3 km fall after her flight broke up over the Peruvian Amazon.

Nicholas Shakespeare

Since 2000, Shakespeare has been Patron of the Anita Goulden Trust, helping children in the Peruvian city of Piura.

Óscar Coello

Oscar Coello, (born in Piura, April 15, 1947) is a Peruvian poet, professor and literary critic.

Peruvian Flamenco

In Peruvian Flamenco men normally wear black trousers, black shirt, a red belt and a Fedora hat.

Peruvian literature

Also, it is relevant the work of new Peruvian poets as Jose Pancorvo, Jorge Eslava, Rossella di Paolo, Domingo de Ramos, Rocio Silva Santisteban, Odi González, Ana Varela, Rodrigo Quijano, Jorge Frisancho, Mariela Dreyfus, Gonzalo Portals, Rafael Espinosa, Lorenzo Helguero, José Carlos Yrigoyen, Montserrat Álvarez, Ana María García, Alberto Valdivia Baselli, Grecia Cáceres, Xavier Echarri, among others.

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.

Pirates in Callao

It tells the story of Alberto, a Peruvian kid who gets lost during a school trip to the Real Felipe Fortress in the seaport of Callao.

Purussaurus

During the summer of 2005, a Franco-Peruvian expedition (the Fitzcarrald expedition) found new fossils of Purussaurus in the Peruvian Amazon (600 km from Lima).

Robert Souper

He became a member of the Army General Staff, and participated in the Battle of Pisagua (November 2, 1879) and the Battle of Dolores (November 19, 1879); helping capture the Peruvian province of Tarapacá, which was effectively separated from the rest of the country.

Roberto Dañino

He was awarded the Order of the Sun (Gran Cruz) in 2003, which is the highest honor bestowed on a Peruvian citizen.

SS Coya

In 1975 the Peruvian Corporation was nationalised and Coyas ownership passed to the state railway company ENAFER.

Stephen Negoesco

Among the players he mentored were former All-Americans John Doyle and Andy Atuegbu, as well as former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo.

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.

Tomás Guido

Guido then worked as a diplomat for San Martín during the effort to liberate Peru, he negotiated with the Spanish Viceroy at Miraflores before San Martín declared Peruvian Independence on July 28, 1821.

Toro Mata

Toro Mata is a type of Peruvian music initially developed by black slaves in Cañete and Chincha.

Vicente Grondona

He is best known for his charcoal carvings including his iconic kiss series, one of which was purchased by Peruvian fashion photographer Mario Testino.

Vílchez

Oscar Vílchez (born 1986), Peruvian football attacking midfielder, currently playing for Alianza Lima

Villacorta

Eduardo Orrego Villacorta (1933–1994), Peruvian architect and politician in the early 1980s

War of the Pacific

Chile acquired the Peruvian territory of Tarapacá, the disputed Bolivian department of Litoral (cutting Bolivia off from the sea), as well as temporary control over the Peruvian provinces of Tacna and Arica.

Wendy Sulca

Her songs have been on TV and variety shows (such as El Francotirador with the Peruvian journalist Jaime Bayly in 2009).


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