Peruvian departments and Callao, found on the map
Find all 24 departments and the Constitutional Province of Callao. Lima includes the capital; zoom in to find tiny Callao beside it.
25 to find, 8 a run.
4 rounds, 6 of 8 to pass each. Pass one and its places are yours.
Every one on the map
Every place listed below can be asked in this game. Places you find in a passed round drop out of your remaining pool.
- Amazonas
- Áncash
- Apurímac
- Arequipa
- Ayacucho
- Cajamarca
- Callao
- Cusco
- Huancavelica
- Huánuco
- Ica
- Junín
- La Libertad
- Lambayeque
- Lima
- Loreto
- Madre de Dios
- Moquegua
- Pasco
- Piura
- Puno
- San Martín
- Tacna
- Tumbes
- Ucayali
What the map tells you about each one
The paragraph the game shows when you find each one. Reading them first is not cheating.
- Tumbes
- Mangroves grow where the Tumbes River meets the Pacific.
- Piura
- Its coast includes the beaches around Máncora.
- Lambayeque
- The Royal Tombs of Sipán museum displays finds from the Moche civilisation.
- La Libertad
- Chan Chan, the former Chimú capital, stands near Trujillo.
- Áncash
- Huascarán, Peru’s highest mountain, rises above the valley around Huaraz.
- Lima
- This map includes Metropolitan Lima within the department outline; its municipal government is separate from Lima’s regional government.
- Callao
- Callao is a constitutional province with its own regional government, rather than a department.
- Ica
- The Nazca Lines and the Paracas coast are in Ica.
- Arequipa
- Arequipa is known for buildings made from pale volcanic sillar stone.
- Moquegua
- Ilo is its Pacific port, while Moquegua city stands inland.
- Tacna
- Tacna city returned to Peruvian administration in 1929.
- Cajamarca
- Atahualpa was captured by the Spanish at Cajamarca in 1532.
- Amazonas
- Its capital is Chachapoyas; Kuélap stands on a nearby mountain ridge.
- San Martín
- Tarapoto lies in the warmer eastern foothills of the Andes.
- Huánuco
- Its valleys connect the high Andes with the Amazon.
- Pasco
- Cerro de Pasco is a high mining city; the eastern side descends into forest around Oxapampa.
- Junín
- Huancayo is its capital, in the Mantaro Valley.
- Huancavelica
- Mercury mining here supplied colonial silver processing elsewhere in the Andes.
- Ayacucho
- The Battle of Ayacucho in 1824 helped secure independence from Spain.
- Apurímac
- Its capital is Abancay, and the Apurímac River cuts deep canyons.
- Cusco
- Cusco was the Inca capital; the department also reaches into Amazonian forest.
- Puno
- Quechua and Aymara communities live around the lake and across the Altiplano.
- Loreto
- Iquitos stands on the Amazon and has no road connection to the national road network.
- Ucayali
- Pucallpa is its capital and a major river port.
- Madre de Dios
- Puerto Maldonado stands near the meeting of the Tambopata and Madre de Dios rivers.
How this one works
How many departments and Callao are on the map?
25. Every one of them is on the map, and a run asks 8 of them. Pass a round and the places you found in it drop out of the pool, so the next run is what you have left.
What is a round?
A run of 8 questions, and 6 right passes it. 4 rounds cover the whole map, and the counter at the top of the Peru page counts the ones behind you. Passing is what banks a round's finds: miss the mark and nothing is taken off the map, so every place that round asked about is still there to be asked again. A round is always the places you have not found yet, and when fewer than five are left it is topped up with a few you have found as review, so the last round is never one or two questions. Three quarters of it passes it.
Can I start the map over?
Yes. "Reset this map" under the counter puts all 25 back in the pool and sets the rounds to zero the moment you press it, so the whole map is there to be found again from nothing. It clears this map only; the other maps of Peru keep their progress.
Do I need an account?
No. The game plays in the page, and a guest's progress is kept in their own browser. Signing in carries it between devices and earns XP for a run.
What happens when I get one wrong?
The map names what you actually hit, then lights up the right answer in green and tells you something about the place. Missing one is how most of this map gets learned.
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