Mrs. Arias Geography & Civics

• LAND AND PEOPLE OF PERU AND ECUADOR CHAPTER 9-2                      PERU                                                                                                                        •     FARMS AND CITIES LIE ON A NARROW COASTAL STRIP ALONG THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
  • • THE ANDES RUN THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE COUNTRY. • MANY CLIMATES-DRY DESERTS, FRIGID MTNS. AND HOT, HUMID RAIN FORESTS. • COLD PERU CURRENT KEEPS TEMPS MILD ALONG THE COAST. • LAKE TITICACA-BORDER WITH BOLIVIA-HIGHEST NAVIGABLE LAKE IN THE WORLD. • EAST OF THE ANDES, FOOTHILLS AND FLAT PLAINS OF THE AMAZON BAASIN. THICK FORESTS COVER MOST OF THE PLAINS AREA. • BIGGEST EXPORT-COPPER, THEN FISH • PEOPLE-SUBSISTENCE FARMERS • NATIVE AMERICANS OF THE ANDES-FIRST TO GROW POTATOES. PERU’S MAIN CROP. • 1400s- INCA HAD A POWERFUL CIVILIZATION. STRETCHED FOR OVER 2500 MILES ALONG THE ANDES. • IN THE 1500s, SPANIARDS ARRIVED AND CONQUERED THE INCAS. BECAME A SPANISH COLONY. IN 1820-PERU BECAME INDEPENDENT. NOW IT IS A REPUBIC. • LIMA-CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY. • HALF OF THE PEOPLE ARE NATIVE AMERICANS. HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATIONS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. ECUADOR • ONE OF THE SMALLEST COUNTRIES IN SOUTH AMERICA. CLIMATE SIMILAR TO PERU. • ECUADOR-SPANISH FOR “EQUATOR,” WHICH RUNS RIGHT THROUGH IT. • OWN GALAPAGOS ISLANDS-RICH IN PLANT AND ANIMAL LIFE. • MAJOR EXPORT-PETROLEUM, FOUND IN EASTERN LOWLANDS. MOST IMPORTANT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY-AGRICULTURE. • HALF OF THE PEOPLE LIVE ALONG THE COAST. PORT CITY OF GUAYAQUIL IS THE MOST POPULOUS. REST LIVE IN VALLEYS AND PLATEAUS OF THE ANDES. • QUITO-CAPITAL. HAS MANY SPANISH COLONIAL BUILDINGS.