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Manuel Scorza (1928–1983), novelist and poet. Hernando de Soto (economist) (born 1941), economist and essayist. Carlos Thorne Boas (born 1923), novelist, writer and lawyer. Álvaro Torres-Calderón (1975-), poet. Abraham Valdelomar (1888–1919) Blanca Varela (1926–2009), poet. Mario Vargas Llosa (born 1936), novelist of the Latin American ...
Jim Himes (born 1966), US Representative. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (born 1938), President of Peru (2016–2018). Luis Felipe de Las Casas Grieve (1916–1988), politician and engineer. Diego de Peñalosa (1621–1687) Governor of Spanish New Mexico in 1661–1664. Javier Valle Riestra (born 1932), lawyer and politician.
Juliane Koepcke. Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke /Joo-lia-nay, KOP-kay/ (born 10 October 1954), also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, she became famous at the age of 17 as the sole survivor of the 1971 LANSA Flight ...
Peru is the fourth most populous country in South America. [19] Its demographic growth rate declined from 2.6% to 1.6% between 1950 and 2000, and its population is expected to reach approximately 46 - 51 million in 2050. [20] As of 2017, 79.3% lived in urban areas and 20.7% in rural areas. [21]
Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto[ b ] (26 July 1938 [ a ] – 11 September 2024) was a Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer who served as the 54th president of Peru from 1990 to 2000. [ c ] Of Japanese descent, Fujimori was an agronomist and university rector before entering politics. Generally recognized as a civilian-military ...
In 2017, 5,500,000 Peruvians identified themselves as indigenous peoples and formed about 26% of the total population of Peru. [2] At the time of the Spanish arrival, the indigenous peoples of the rain forest of the Amazon basin to the east of the Andes were mostly semi-nomadic tribes; they subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering and slash and ...
Chachapoya culture. The Chachapoyas, also called the "Warriors of the Clouds", was a culture of the Andes living in the cloud forests of the southern part of the Department of Amazonas of present-day Peru. The Inca Empire conquered their civilization shortly before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
Pisac, Peru. Quechua people (/ ˈkɛtʃuə /, [8][9] US also / ˈkɛtʃwɑː /; [10] Spanish: [ˈketʃwa]) , Quichua people or kichwa people may refer to any of the indigenous peoples of South America who speak the Quechua languages, which originated among the Indigenous people of Peru. Although most Quechua speakers are native to Peru, there ...