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Geography of Peru

Can you answer these random questions about the geography of Peru?
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What is the capital of Peru?
Lima
What "lost city" of the Incas is a popular tourist attraction?
Machu Picchu
What is the largest lake in South America, found at an elevation of 12,500 feet?
Lake Titicaca
What is the most-spoken indigenous language in Peru?
Quechua
What city in Peru was once the capital of the Incan empire?
Cusco
What island chain was famous for the fertilizers mined in it in the 19th century?
Chincha Islands
What is the name of the fertilizer that was mined there?
Guano
What ancient group of geoglyphs are located in that desert, and is a UNESCO site?
Nazca Lines
What huge river do most people consider the mountain pass "Mismi" to be the source of?
Amazon River
What are the largest cities in Peru after the capital?
Arequipa
Trujillo
What plateau region of the above does Peru share with Bolivia?
Altiplano
What is the name of the currency of Peru?
Sol
What mountain range runs through Peru?
Andes
What "saucy" river makes most of Peru's border with Colombia?
Putumayo River
What is the name of the tallest mountain in Peru?
Huascarán
What is the most populous city of the Peruvian Amazon?
Iquitos
What dry desert is mostly located in Chile, but also extends into the extreme
southernmost lands in Peru?
Atacama Desert
What is the birth country of the greatest number of foreign-born Peruvian residents?
Venezuela
What term refers to someone that is a mix of Spanish and Amerindian descent,
to which 60.2% of the Peruvians belong?
Mestizo
1 Comments
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Level 75
Aug 4, 2022
Nice quiz, thanks.

one thing:

"What ancient group of geoglyphs are located in that desert, and is a UNESCO site?"

- This question should be after the Atacama question.

There might be people complaining about it though, as it's often called the "Nazca Desert". After all, the Nazca Lines are hardly in the "extreme southernmost lands in Peru", they're like 1/3 of the way up. It might just be the Peruvian way of referring to the northern part of the Atacama though, I'm not knowledgeable enough to complain myself...