Amazing Facts About Peru

Amazing Facts About Peru Did you know there’s a country where deserts meet glaciers,

and the Amazon rainforest begins? Welcome to Peru one of the most geographically diverse

places on Earth. This is the land of Machu Picchu, the legendary city of the Incas hidden

deep in the mountains and never found by Spanish conquerors. Few people realize that the Amazon

River actually starts in Peru, flowing from the Andes into the world’s largest rainforest.

Peru is also the birthplace of the potato, with over 3,000 different varieties

more than anywhere else on the planet. And then there are the Nazca Lines gigantic ancient

drawings etched into the desert, visible only from the sky and still unexplained.