WILDLIFE EXPEDITIONS
Macaw clay lick & Sandoval lake
Promotion 3 x 2 Jan to March

Crossed from the north to the south by lands mountain range, Peru's astounding variety of climates and eco-systems ranks the country amongst the world's top eight nations in terms of biodiversity, where one can find 84 of the 104 life zones existing around the planet. The country is home to more than 400 species of mammals, 300 reptiles, 1,700 birds and more than 50,000 plants registered to date.

Área
1´285,215 square km is the third largest country in South America and its among the 20 largest nations in the world, Peru also hold 200 miles in the pacific ocean and has a territorial rights of 60 millions hectares in the Antarctic.

Population 
total 25,662,000    |    Urban : 72 %   |   Rural: 28%

Peru has been the meeting ground for different nations and cultures The native people from the coast and highlands where joined 500 years ago by the Spanish, and later enriched by Africans, Asians and European . Peruvians emerged as the representative of a nation whose rich ethnic mixture is one of its leading features. Peru celebrates some 3,000 religious festivities a year.

Language
The number of languages listed in Peru is 108, of those 93 are living languages and 15 are extinct.. Although Spanish is commonly spoken across the country , Quechua, an incas ancient language, is still spoken in many parts of the country mainly in the Andes. The Amazon jungle has a 38 different languages.

Spanish: 80 %   |   Quechua: 16 %  | Other languages: 3 %   |   Foreign languages: 0,2 %