Peru is located in western South America and it shares borders with Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador and the South Pacific Ocean. Peru is about 1.28 million square kilometers. There are three major regions in Peru: a narrow coastal belt, the wide Andean mountains and the Amazon Basin. The coast is mostly a desert, but contains Peru's major cities. The Andes has two main ranges - Cordillera Occidental and Oriental. Oriental includes Peru's highest mountain called Huascaran, it a peaks out at 22,200ft. On the east side is the Amazon Basin, a region of tropical lowland, the water there is carried out by the Maranon and Ucayali rivers.
Bird and marine life is pretty abundant along Peru's desert coast, with large colonies of sea lions, Humboldt penguins, flamingos, Peruvian pelicans, Inca terns and the brown booby. Some other birds that are there are the Andean condor, puna ibis and a huge number of different hummingbirds. The highland is home to llamas, alpacas, guanacos......
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