Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is an extremely biodiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains vertically extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon Basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon river.

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Geographical values

• absolute in degrees, minutes and seconds:
  12° 2′ 46″ S • of southern latitude
  77° 1′ 50″ W • of western longitude
• in degrees with decimal fractions:
  −12.046016°; −77.030554°

Length of Peru from south to north is 2,049.693 kilometers, from west ot east – from 1,359.944 km on south to 1,433.684 km on north.