Peru is rich with minerals, natural resources, and precious metals such as silver, gold, copper, timber, iron ore, coal, potash, phosphate, petroleum, and natural gas. Natural resources have created Peru's infrastructure jump in growth in recent years. Peru has been building roads that go through different types of terrain to include mountains, rainforest and urban areas. Peruvians have updated their railway systems that transport civilians to and from their jobs all throughout the country. Although Peru is wealthy; unfortunately the majority of this income from these natural resources does not make it to the miners and farmers that work long days in order to acquire the resources for global sale. Many of Peru's citizens still live in poverty …show more content…
Multiple companies generate approximately 80 percent of the country's electricity. The internet service providers service almost 1,000,000 citizens across the country. Majority of the citizens living in the urban areas have cell phones, but the citizens living in small villages do not have as much of the modernized luxurys.
Peru is an ever-changing climate system due to the mixture of terrain and climate that consist of everything from tropical forest in the east and deserts in the west. Additionally, in the Andes Mountains the temperature is always much colder than the rest of the Country and is located in the center of the Country. Peru maintains a stable southern hemisphere climate, one that is near reversed of the northern hemisphere with the summer months being December through February and the winter following in July through September. However, off the coast of South America an event changes the weather that happens every 2-7 years. The local citizens have named this event El Nino, which means "The Little Boy" due to its occurrence in December. During El Nino, the waters off Peru's coast begin to warm and cause large numbers of fish to die, effecting the wildlife and local population greatly. The fishers that live on the coast of Peru suffer tremendously due to the fish that die off are their main source of food and food production during this event. Additionally,
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One of the main terrorist organizations in Peru is the Sendero Luminoso, which means Shining Path. This organization has a goal to destroy the institutions of the Peruvians and make the country into a communist institution. The Sendero Luminoso has approximately 100-200 members that operate in the rural parts of the country. The Sendero Luminoso opposes outside influence of foreign officials. During the 1990's, the Sendero Luminoso attempted to car bomb the US embassy located in Peru. Another terrorist organization that is operating in Peru is the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement or MRTA with approximately 100 members. This group wants to establish a Marxist regime and get rid of all United States of America and Japanese imperial groups in Peru. The MRTA is a group that has conducted bombings, kidnappings, and other terroristic activities in the past. Recently, these groups' activities have slowed down over the recent years, and the groups have been eliminated from the
There are twenty Spanish speaking counties worldwide. Out of those twenty countries there are about 475 million Spanish speaking people. People often believe most Hispanics are very similar in these countries, but in fact they are very diverse. Some the differences are the foods, music, and history of the people. The two countries that show this are Peru and Mexico. These countries are from two distinct cultures and two different continents.
Peruvians enjoy a free government and one of the richest histories in the world. Peru’s history has legendary beginnings and leads to a revolution. Furthermore, the Peruvian government allows civil liberties and freedoms. Come and go back in time to the Incas and lead through until Peru’s founding government.
Colombia was one of the three unique nations alongside Ecuador and Venezuela that rose up out of the breakdown of Gran Colombia in 1830. In the course of the most recent 40 years, there has been a battle to oust the legislature somewhat in light of the drug exchanges all through Colombia. The development does however need backing from military and backing from the essential impacts. Lately there have been difficulties for control of the regions all through Colombia furthermore for the drug exchange. The Spanish was landed with an expect to assume control and colonization and conveyed slaves alongside them from Africa. In view of these reasons Colombia is perceived as expanded ethnics and social nation where every locale
Colombia is located in the north of South America. Both oceans surround it; to the west is the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean to the northeast. Colombia also has Panama to the north, Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast and Ecuador and Peru to the south. The capital is Bogota, and it also has important cities such as Cali, Medellin and Barranquilla. The population is around 47 million people in which 7 millions are in Bogota. The main language is Spanish with many ethnic languages across the country. Colombia is independent from Spain since July 20th of 1980
Colombia, which is the 28th largest country in the world, is the second largest country in South America, and has more than 46 million people living there. It is also the third largest Spanish-speaking country in the world (US). “Colombia is situated in South America, bordered by Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, the Caribbean, and the Pacific Ocean” (Colombia Weather). Between the Caribbean and the Pacific, the country has the most bio diverse land, which includes the Rainforest and the Andes mountains (US). Three ranges of the Andes Mountains run through Colombia, and it ends in the lower places of the Caribbean. There are marshes and rugged mountains along the southern Pacific coast. The east of the southwestern lowlands
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Peru is located in the west of South America, and has borders with Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, and Chile. It is almost twice the size of Texas. Peru is the third largest country in South America, and has a wide range of natural resources. The country has three main regions which are coast, mountains and jungle (Peru Travel, 2015). Generally, May through October is the dry season; November through April is the rainy season, and there are usually more than 15 days during rainy season in Peru (Frommers, 2015).
This article certainly caught my eye. Can you imagine that in the deepest jungle in the Peruvian Amazon there is a percolating, roiling, boiling river? The waters in this river can reach a temperature of up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit and all around it is lush vegetation and forest. The locals living here believed that the river is sacred and that these particularly hot water had healing powers and shamans used it along with their medicine.
Culture is the aquired knowledge that people use to interpret, experience, and generate social behavior.
In the interviewee’s culture, many people value the aspect of religion in their lives. This is seen even more in elders. They believe in Catholicism and go to church every Sunday to pray. There are also catholic schools, where people are taught by priests. The interviewee’s family did not influence her to believe in any specific religion, and so she expressed that she identifies herself as agnostic.
The Superintendence Resolution No. 286-2009 / SUNAT and its amendments established the provisions for taxpayers to implement their books and records related to tax matters electronically. This regulation is effective from July 1, 2010.
Throughout the history of Latin American countries, like Peru there has been dramatic change in the overall way of life. These changes are largely due to external influences on the international level such as the Spanish conquest of Andean territories. However no matter whether the process of change was political, economic, social or cultural, they all have similarities and are interconnected. These different types of change are closely intertwined and influence one another while linking the local level of life with foreign (on an (inter)national level) events and forces. Also along with these changes, some aspects of indigenous life remain stable and continue throughout these external influences. In this essay I will discuss continuity
Peru wasn't a democratic country until 1980 and has been under democratic leadership since (Facts about Peru). The economy is completely two different economies, the Coastal and Andes regions are the two that split. The Coastal regions are the same as any other modern economy and operates as one, however, the Andes are different. Andres area is a more traditional economy that relies on subsistence farming and trade among the residents (Shields 29). "In terms of GDP per capita – a measure of each citizen's share of the wealth generated by the economy- Peru ranked eighth among Latin American countries" (Shields 29). To think about this is that the wealth is only distributed among the people in the Coastal areas and that excludes the Andres
Peru is located in western South America and it shares borders with Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador and the South Pacific Ocean. Peru is about 1.28 million square kilometers. There are three major regions in Peru: a narrow coastal belt, the wide Andean mountains and the Amazon Basin. The coast is mostly a desert, but contains Peru's major cities. The Andes has two main ranges - Cordillera Occidental and Oriental. Oriental includes Peru's highest mountain called Huascaran, it a peaks out at 22,200ft. On the east side is the Amazon Basin, a region of tropical lowland, the water there is carried out by the Maranon and Ucayali rivers.
The world today is faced with many obstacles concerning all the peoples of the world. The issues range from globalization to the state of the environment with every political, economic, and human interest lying in between. It is these human interests that will be brought to light by examining the revolutions of the Incan indigenous beginning in the early part of the twentieth century. Running parallel to their North American neighbors, the native peoples of Peru have lived in seriously impecunious conditions as the result of ethno racial discrimination handed them by their colonial occupiers; Spanish speakers. These revolutions, namely Shining Path, would eventually define the gap between the rich