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Peru

Pe·ru

(pə-ro͞o′)

A country of western South America on the Pacific Ocean. Inhabited since at least the 9th millennium bc, it was the center of the Inca Empire after the 12th century ad. Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca in 1533 led to the establishment in 1542 of the Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, which in time included Panama and all of Spanish South America except Venezuela. Peru achieved full independence from Spain in 1824. Lima is the capital and the largest city.

Pe·ru′vi·an (-vē-ən) adj. & n.

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Peru

(pəˈruː)

(Placename) a republic in W South America, on the Pacific: the centre of the great Inca Empire when conquered by the Spanish in 1532; gained independence in 1824 by defeating Spanish forces with armies led by San Martín and Bolívar; consists of a coastal desert, rising to the Andes; an important exporter of minerals and a major fishing nation. Official languages: Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara. Official religion: Roman Catholic. Currency: nuevo sol. Capital: Lima. Pop: 29 849 303 (2013 est). Area: 1 285 215 sq km (496 222 sq miles)

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Pe•ru

(pəˈru)

n.

a republic in W South America. 26,624,582; 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km.) Cap.: Lima.

Spanish, Pe•rú (pɛˈru)

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Peru - 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

Republic of Peru

Sendero Luminoso, Shining Path, SL - a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade; "Shining Path has been responsible for 30,000 deaths"

Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru, MRTA, Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement - a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru; was formed in 1983 to overthrow the Peruvian government and replace it with a Marxist regime; has connections with the ELN in Bolivia

OAS, Organization of American States - an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation

Inka, Inca - 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

Arequipa - a city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on the site of an ancient Inca city

capital of Peru, Lima - capital and largest city and economic center of Peru; located in western Peru; was capital of the Spanish empire in the New World until the 19th century

Machu Picchu - Inca fortress city in the Andes in Peru discovered in 1911; it may have been built in the 15th century

El Misti - the world's 2nd largest active volcano; located in the Andes in southern Peru

Huainaputina - an inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Peru; last erupted in 1783

Amazon River, Amazon - a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles)

Andes - a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast

Coropuna - a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high)

Huascaran - a mountain in the Andes in Peru (22,205 feet high)

South America - a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama

Yerupaja - a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high)

Peruvian - a native or inhabitant of Peru

Translations

Peru

Peru

Peru

ペルー

페루

Peru

Peru

Перу

Peru

ประเทศเปรู

Peru

nước Peru

秘鲁

Peru

[pəˈruː] N → Perú m

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Peru

[pəˈruː] n → Pérou m

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Peru

n → Peru nt

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Peru

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Peru

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In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia , by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters.

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He had the mysterious juruparis of the Rio Negro Indians, that women are not allowed to look at and that even youths may not see till they have been subjected to fasting and scourging, and the earthen jars of the Peruvians that have the shrill cries of birds, and flutes of human bones such as Alfonso de Ovalle heard in Chile, and the sonorous green jaspers that are found near Cuzco and give forth a note of singular sweetness.

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Probably the mother during an important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when earthquakes caused the beach to gape.

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And Saxon, back in her own kitchen and preparing supper for Billy, wondered what lusts and rapacities had led the old, burnt-faced woman from the big Peruvian ranch, through all the world, to West Oakland and Barry Higgins Old Barry was not the sort who would fling away his share of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, much less ever attain to such opulence.

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That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago.

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"Ah, that boy will find out some Bavarian or Peruvian princess; he will want a crown and an immense fortune."

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He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way at one of the Peruvian ports, in October of 1844.

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d'Orbigny, is common to all the species of the genus; it is very useful to the Peruvian Indians, who use the dung for fuel, and are thus saved the trouble of collecting it.

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It's nothing of the sort -- it's a Peruvian candlestick.

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Some people, however indifferent they may become after a considerable space of absence, always contrive to leave a pleasant impression just at parting; not so Hunsden, a conference with him affected one like a draught of Peruvian bark; it seemed a concentration of the specially harsh, stringent, bitter; whether, like bark, it invigorated, I scarcely knew.

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Maintaining a low profile throughout, 81 percent of Peruvians do not recognise the new Peruvian president's name in an opinion poll conducted earlier this month.