Peru is one of the largest native centers of the old civilization, at the same as mexico, mesopotamia, india and china.

Extension
with 1.285.215 km2, peru is the third country of greater extension in south america, after brazil and argentina, being situated thus among the 20 most extensive countries of the planet.  It possesses, besides, 200 nautical miles and territorial rights on a surface of 60 million hectares in the antarctica.  Peru is divided into 24 departments, more the constitutional province of the callao.  The capital of the country is lima. 

Population
27.662.000 of urban inhabitants 72.3 rural 27.7 peru is a country of all bloods.  Through its history, peru has been the point of encounter of different races and cultures.  To the native population they added, does near 500 years ago, the spaniards. 

Spanish languages
80,3 quechua: 16,2 other languages: 3,0 foreign languages: 0,2 as part of their cultural wealth, in peru they coexist a multitude of native tongues.  Although spanish is the language of common use, the quechua is an important inheritance of the inca past and in many regions of the country still is spoken with light variants according to the zone.  They exist, besides, other dialects as the aymara (puno) and diverse amazon tongues that are distributed in a surprising variety of families of the ones that, still in these days, they survive near 15 linguistic trunks, giving rise to 43 different tongues.

The government
The government of peru is a democratic republic.  The president and the members of the congress are chosen each five years by universal voting. 
The present constitutional
President of peru is the Dr. Alan Garcia Perez (2006-2011).