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This guide helps people who want to know where is Peru. Peru is a country situated in the western region of South America. It is situated on the coast of the South Pacific Ocean, and is well known as the land of the Incas. It has great variety of terrain, and consequently has varying weather patterns in various areas.
Peru is situated within the latitude of 10 degree south and the longitude of 76 degree west. The total area of Peru is 1,285,220 square kilometers of which land area is 1.28 million square kilometers and water area is 5,220 square kilometers. Peru shares its borders with the countries Colombia and Ecuador on the north, with Brazil and Bolivia in the east, and with Bolivia and Chile in the south. To the west is the South Pacific Ocean.
The capital city of Peru is Lima, and there are many great tourist locations in Peru, it being the land of the Incas, and having the beautiful Andes mountain range passing though it. It receives a considerable amount of tourists inflow every year.
Peru is in the southern hemisphere, and has tropical and semi tropical climate. However, due to the variation of its terrain, weather patters vary in different places. Peru has arid coastal areas in the west which go as far as the Atacama desert in the southern region, highlands and the Andes mountain range in the central inland region, and plains with tropical rain forest in the east, which leads up to the Amazon plains.
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