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On Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, Peru scored 33 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Peru ranked 121st among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [ 1 ]
Near Quiruvilca Peru- water coming directly from mines . Water pollution sources in Peru include industrial waste, sewage and oil related waste. Peru has 1746 cu km of renewable water resources and 86% of this water is used for farming and 7% for industrial activity. In urban areas only 87% and in rural areas 62% of the population have access ...
Before the drug war in Mexico, there were roughly 300 murders in the border city of Ciudad Juarez in 2007. In 2010, state officials reported a peak of 3,622 homicides in the city. With a rate of 272 murders per 100,000 residents, Ciudad Juarez alone had the highest murder rate in the world, [ citation needed ] although the rate has steadily ...
The Universidad de las Américas de la Ciudad de México (UDLA) was founded in 1940 as the Mexico City Junior College (MCC). In the 1960s, its name changed to the University of the Americas and shortly thereafter to the current one. It was founded in Colonia Roma but moved to a facility on the Mexico City-Toluca highway.
According to early Spanish articles, the Lima area was once called Itchyma, [citation needed] after its original inhabitants. However, even before the Inca occupation of the area in the 15th century, a famous oracle in the Rímac Valley had come to be known by visitors as Limaq (Limaq, pronounced , which means "talker" or "speaker" in the coastal Quechua that was the area's primary language ...
Position Photo City Region Population 2017 1: Lima: Lima: 9,562,280 2: Arequipa: Arequipa: 1,008,290 3: Trujillo: La Libertad: 919,899 4: Chiclayo: Lambayeque: 552,508
2. Marlin Park (Foster City, San Mateo County) 3. Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Los Angeles County) 4. Mother’s Beach (Marina del Rey, Los Angeles County) 5. Moonstone County Park (Humboldt ...
The water and sanitation sector in Peru has made important advances in the last two decades, including the increase of water coverage from 30% to 85% between 1980 and 2010. . Sanitation coverage has also increased from 9% to 37% from 1985 to 2010 in rural areas.