Peru Definition

pə-ro͝o
proper name
Country in W South America, on the Pacific: 496,226 sq mi (1,285,220 sq km); cap. Lima.
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pronoun
A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Peru.
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A country of western South America on the Pacific Ocean. Inhabited since at least the 9th millennium bc , it was the center of the Inca Empire after the 12th century ad . Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca in 1533 led to the establishment in 1542 of the Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, which in time included Panama and all of Spanish South America except Venezuela. Peru achieved full independence from Spain in 1824. Lima is the capital and the largest city.
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Origin of Peru

  • From Spanish Perú, possibly from the native name Birú, or from the Quechua pelu (“river").

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Peru Sentence Examples

  • The Andine sub-region extends from Peru to the Argentine and follows roughly the watershed of the Amazon.

  • Melastomaceae, copiously represented in tropical America, are more feebly so in Peru and wholly wanting in Chile.

  • In the year 1519 Panama was founded by Pedrarias; and the conquest of Peru by Pizarro followed a few years afterwards.

  • The exploring enterprise of the Spanish nation did not wane after the conquest of Peru and Mexico, and the acquisition of the vast empire of the Indies.

  • The voyage of Drake across the Pacific was preceded by that of Alvaro de Mendana, who was despatched from Peru in 1567 to discover the great Antarctic continent which was believed to extend far northward into the South sea, the search In Pacific. for which now became one of the leading motives of Pacific. exploration.

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