!!!Peru: Geography
||Location|Western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador
||Geographic Coordinates|10 00 S, 76 00 W[{GoogleMap location='-10.0,-76.0' zoom='4'}]
||Area |''total: ''1,285,216 sq km\\''land: ''1,279,996 sq km\\''water: ''5,220 sq km\\[[__''Verified in 8 databases''__]
||Land boundaries|''total: ''7,461 km\\''border countries: ''Bolivia 1,075 km, Brazil 2,995 km, Chile 171 km, Colombia 1,800 km, Ecuador 1,420 km
||Coastline|2,414 km
||Elevation Extremes|''lowest point: ''Pacific Ocean 0 m\\''highest point: ''Nevado Huascaran 6,768 m
||Highest Mountains|__Due to difference in mountain rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\ According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Huascaran 6768 m; Yerupaja 6634 m; Coropuna 6425 m; Huandoy 6395 m; Huantsan 6395 m\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Cerro Pariamachay 6759 m; Nevado Huascarán 6746 m; Nevado Yerupajá 6617 m; Nevado Auzangate 6384 m; Nevado Coropuna 6377 m\\ \\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Mountains|Geography/America/Peru/Geography/Important_Mountains]
||Terrain|western coastal plain (costa), high and rugged Andes in center (sierra), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin (selva)
||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
||Natural Resource|copper, silver, gold, petroleum, timber, fish, iron ore, coal, phosphate, potash, hydropower, natural gas
||Land Use|''arable land: ''2.84%\\''permanent crops: ''0.66%\\''other: ''96.5% (2011)
||Climate|varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to frigid in Andes
||Irrigated Land|11,960 sq km (2003)
||Renewable Water Resources|1,913 cu km (2011)
||Environment_CurrentIssues|deforestation (some the result of illegal logging); overgrazing of the slopes of the costa and sierra leading to soil erosion; desertification; air pollution in Lima; pollution of rivers and coastal waters from municipal and mining wastes
||Environment - international agreements|''party to: ''Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling\\''signed, but not ratified: ''none of the selected agreements
||Large Cities|__Due to difference in city rankings taken from two data sources we are listing here both lists :__\\According to [Wolfram|http://www.wolframalpha.com]: Lima; Arequipa; Trujillo; Chiclayo; Iquitos\\According to [Geonames|http://www.geonames.org]: Lima; Arequipa; Callao; Trujillo; Chiclayo\\\\\__Attempted Explanation:__ Please help us to try to explain the discrepancies by sending us helpful information to [office@global-geography.org|mailto:office@global-geography.org] \\[Important Cities|Geography/America/Peru/Geography/Important_Cities]
||Geography-note|shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake, with Bolivia; a remote slope of Nevado Mismi, a 5,316 m peak, is the ultimate source of the Amazon River\\[Important Lakes|Geography/America/Peru/Geography/Important_Lakes]