Everything you need to know about Peru
Cross Peru from the Pacific desert over the Andes to the Amazon, with coastal cities, highland markets and river ports along the way. Explore its maps, discover the history and everyday life behind the places, then practise Spanish or Quechua. Quechua has several regional varieties; the lessons introduce forms used in the southern Peruvian Andes.
Read it, then make it stick
Geography of Peru
Peru's three broad regions are the coast, the Andean sierra and the Amazonian selva. Lima occupies an arid coastal strip, while Cusco stands high in the mountains. Lake Titicaca is shared with Bolivia, and major rivers east of the Andes feed the Amazon system.
Know the shape of the country
Start with the 24 departments and the Constitutional Province of Callao, then place twenty cities and explore nine selected waters. Lima includes Metropolitan Lima on this map, although its municipal government is separate from the regional government. Zoom into the central coast to find Callao.
Places worth visiting
Essential · Inca citadel
Machu Picchu
The Inca citadel in the clouds. Hike the Inca Trail or take the train to Aguas Calientes.
Follow the Inca trail from Cusco to Machu Picchu, then add the lake and the canyons of the south, with the north and the Amazon to go further. Essential is our shortlist for a first trip, and worth a detour goes further. Select a pin to read about a place, then play the map and find them all.
Take Spanish with you
Greetings and politeness
Hello, please, thank you, sorry: the ten openers everything else builds on.
Keep going one country deeper
When you have had your fill of Peru, the countries marked guide have a page like this one, and every other has maps of its own.
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