Peru Lap book Key

Country air is cleaner, farms, grow quinoa and potatoes, no electricity or running
water, trucks sell to boil, sheep llamas,
City- capital Lima, busy, noisy, museums, shops, restaurants, buses and cars,
polluted air, markets sell clothes and vegetables
Language - Spanish
Traditions and Celebrations
1. At festivals they dance and play music, guitar is called a Charango
2. If you visit someones house you shake hands and say Buenos dias (good
morning)
3. Carnival where you throw buckets of water at each other,
4. Yunza tree in the square decorated with fruits and gifts, dance around it and
chop it down
5. Christmas have a manager scene and decorate with lights, at midnight eat
supper and watch fireworks
6. Poncho cape, for men woven vest wollen pants, women- blouse shawl and
colourful skirt called pollera
Food
- Paneton (cake at Christmas, pieces of fruit)
-Pachamanca (for festivals made with meat and corn cooked in a whole in the
ground)
- 200 kinds of potatoes
- Aji (peruivian hot red or yellow pepper)
- cebiche (raw fish seasoned with lemon and vinegar)
- Tamales (corn and meat, cheese wrapped in a banana leaves)
Government
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Called the Republic of Peru in Lima

President Ollanta Humala (Democratic)
Elect

Climate
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2 seasons (wet Nov to April - 23 degrees) and (dry May to Oct - 16 degrees)
Mountains is colder

Services
Hospital (busy), Libraries, Schools (not a lot of computers), Buses, Electricity and
most have running water, Most have phones, some paved streets, not many street
lights
Natural resources gold, silver, minerals (copper, iron and zinc) fish, oil, coffee,
cotton, mangoes, asparagus, sugar cane