English > Peru: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries. |
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| Synonym | Republic of Peru |
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| Instance of | South American country, South American nation | Any one of the countries occupying the South American continent |
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| Member of | Organization of American States, OAS | An association including most countries in the western hemisphere |
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| Members | Peruvian | A native or inhabitant of Peru |
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| Part of | South America | A continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama |
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| Parts | Amazon, Amazon River | A major South American river |
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| Andes | A mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast |
| Arequipa | A city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on the site of an ancient Inca city |
| Coropuna | A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high) |
| El Misti | The world's 2nd largest active volcano |
| Huainaputina | An inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Peru |
| Huascaran | A mountain in the Andes in Peru (22,205 feet high) |
| Lima, capital of Peru | Capital and largest city and economic center of Peru |
| Machu Picchu | Inca fortress city in the Andes in Peru discovered in 1911 |
| Yerupaja | A mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high) |
| Region of | Inca, Inka | The small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s |
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| Shining Path, Sendero Luminoso, SL | A terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru |
| Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru, MRTA | A Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru |
| Spanish | Peru, Perú |
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| Catalan | Perú |
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| Adjectives | Peruvian | of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its people |
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