Did you know?
- ✨Machu Picchu was 'rediscovered' only in 1911 — the locals knew about it the whole time.
- ✨Origin of the potato — over 4,000 native varieties grow here, in every imaginable color.
- ✨Home to the deepest canyon in the world — Colca Canyon (~3,270 m), more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon.
- 🏜The Nazca Lines — giant figures etched into the desert — are best seen from the sky and still defy explanation.
- ✨Peruvians invented ceviche, pisco sour, and a national obsession with roasted guinea pig (cuy).
Location
-10.00°, -76.00°
Actual size
Compared to Australia.
Australia · 7,692,024 km²
Peru
1,285,216 km²
% of Australia
16.71%
