The document provides instructions for creating a 10 minute presentation on the country of Peru that includes information on its capital, location, flag, maps, demographics, economy, and 20 photographs. Students are directed to use the CIA World Factbook as their primary source and to include additional details found through independent research, such as information on Peru's major rivers, mountain ranges, and a recent news event from the country.

1. Name:___________________ Period: ____ Date:_____
Use www.cia.gov, World Factbook as your primary source.
*Signifies the information is not on the CIA site and must be
found on the internet somewhere else. Use your research
skills.
Instructions: Using a presentation format chosen in
conjunction with your Technology class, you are expected to
include the following information. Your goal is to create an
informative presentation that takes a maximum of ten
minutes to present. Appropriate grouping of information,
graphs and/or graphics, pictures that compliment your data
are encouraged. Additionally, you are to include 20
photographs of your country. You are to provide a wide
sampling of pictures, representing urban and rural settings,
foods, people, traditional costumes, money, the country’s
leaders, recreation, as examples.
Country: Peru
Capital: Lima
Location: Western South America, bordering the South
Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador

2. Country Flag
*Flag History The historical origin of flags dates back to around 1000 BC,
www.worldflags101.com when the Egyptians used primitive versions of flags - some
were even made out of wood or metal. Flags were originally
used for the purpose of identification or to signal to others.
Although flags are still used for many of those reasons today,
flags have also come to be used for much more.
Map
(country)

3. Map (regional)
Area of country 1,285,216 sq km
Land 7,461 km
boundaries
Coastline/km 2,414 km
Climate varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to
frigid in Andes
Terrain western coastal plain (costa), high and rugged Andes in center
(sierra), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin (selva)
Elevation lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Nevado
extremes Huascaran 6,768 m
Natural copper, silver, gold, petroleum, timber, fish, iron ore, coal,
resources phosphate, potash, hydropower, natural gas
Land use arable land: 2.88% permanent crops: 0.47% other: 96.65%
(2005)
Natural hazards earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, landslides, mild volcanic
activity volcanism: volcanic activity in the Andes Mountains;
Ubinas (elev. 5,672 m), which last erupted in 2009, is the
country's most active volcano; other historically active
volcanoes include El Misti, Huaynaputina, Sabancaya, and
Yucamane
Environment- deforestation (some the result of illegal logging); overgrazing
current issues of the slopes of the costa and sierra leading to soil erosion;
desertification; air pollution in Lima; pollution of rivers and

4. coastal waters from municipal and mining wastes
Geography- shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake,
Note with Bolivia; a remote slope of Nevado Mismi, a 5,316 m peak,
is the ultimate source of the Amazon River
Ethnic Groups Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%,
white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%
Languages Spanish (official) 84.1%, Quechua (official) 13%, Aymara
(official) 1.7%, Ashaninka 0.3%, other native languages
(includes a large number of minor Amazonian languages)
0.7%, other 0.2% (2007 Census)
Religions Roman Catholic 81.3%, Evangelical 12.5%, other 3.3%,
unspecified or none 2.9% (2007 Census)
Population and 29,549,517 (July 2012 est.) country comparison to the world:
comparison 42
Population 1.016% (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 115
Growth Rate
Birth Rate/1000 19.13 births/1,000 population (2012 est.) country comparison
to the world: 96
Death 5.95 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.) country
Rate/1000 comparison to the world: 165
Maternal 67 deaths/100,000 live births (2010) country comparison to
Mortality Rate the world: 91
Infant Mortality total: 21.5 deaths/1,000 live births country comparison to the
Rate world: 89
Life expectancy total population: 72.73 years country comparison to the world:
at birth 127
Physicians’ 0.92 physicians/1,000 population (2009)
density
Literacy definition: age 15 and over can read and write total
population: 92.9%
Government constitutional republic
type
Suffrage (voting 18 years of age; universal and compulsory until the age of 70
rights)
GDP (ppp) per $10,700 (2012 est.) country comparison to the world: 109
capita $10,200 (2011 est.) $9,700 (2010 est.) note: data are in 2012
US dollars
Population 31.3% (2010 est.)
below poverty
line
Agriculture asparagus, coffee, cocoa, cotton, sugarcane, rice, potatoes,
products corn, plantains, grapes, oranges, pineapples, guavas,
bananas, apples, lemons, pears, coca, tomatoes, mangoes,

5. barley, medicinal plants, palm oil, marigold, onion, wheat, dry
beans; poultry, beef, pork, dairy products; guinea pigs; fish
Industries 33.9%
Export copper, gold, lead, zinc, tin, iron ore, molybdenum, silver;
commodities crude petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas; coffee,
asparagus and other vegetables, fruit, apparel and textiles,
fishmeal, fish, chemicals, fabricated metal products and
machinery, alloys
Import petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, plastics,
commodities machinery, vehicles, color TV sets, power shovels, front-end
loaders, telephones and telecommunication equipment, iron
and steel, wheat, corn, soybean products, paper, cotton,
vaccines and medicines
Exchange rate $200.3 billion (2012 est.)
to $US (2012)
Internet users 9.158 million (2009)
*Major rivers Urubamba, Huallaga, Yavarí, Putumayo, Marañón, Ucayali,
Mantaro, Amazon, Apurímac, Napo, and Madre de Dios
*Major Andes
Mountain
Ranges
*Distance from Miles: 3280.57
Miami (capital)
*Popular Soccer
Sport(s)
*Current Event Police have caught a group of alleged thieves accused of
summarized in stealing more than $46,000 since mid-January from
your own words commuters stuck in traffic in Peru's capital city, Lima. After
(dated within 1 weeks of undercover surveillance, agents with the Peruvian
year of this National Police surrounded the suspects Monday as they were
report). Include allegedly trying to again rob people stuck in traffic in the
source. Barrios Altos neighborhood of Lima.