According to businesscarriers, Peru occupies a middle position in Latin America in terms of size and level of economic development. The volume of GDP is 57.8 billion US dollars (2002). The GDP growth rate in 2002 was 5.2%. The mining industry (12.0%), the manufacturing industry (5.3%), and fisheries (3.1%) grew at the highest rates. The […]

ECONOMY: FARMING AND FISHING Breeding, especially sheep and llamas, is one of the most traditional activities of the Andean populations (although still far from being adequately organized), who obtain from it wool to weave clothes and blankets, milk and meat to integrate the scarce agricultural products, hides and skins. In addition, the llama, a small […]

TERRITORY: MORPHOLOGY Structurally, the Peruvian territory has its fundamental element in the Andean system, here formed by a series of folds from which originated the chains that, in a longitudinal sense, follow one another from E to W: the Cordillera Oriental, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera Occidental. They are separated from each other by […]

The territorial characteristics have had a decisive weight in the development of the anthropic geography of Peru, a country of South America defined by extrareference, com. The division into the coastal strip, the Andean highlands and the eastern plains still makes it actually difficult to organize the unitary space, which is still affected by what […]

After the decimations that occurred mainly at the beginning of the colonial era, also for the diseases introduced by the conquistadors (the Indian population at the time of the Inca empire was variously estimated at 6-7 and even more million residents), the country’s demographic developments had their first strong impulses only in the twentieth century: […]

The variety of climatic situations corresponds to that of plant formations. In the coastal desert strip, the oases at the river outlets dot the foothills area, which is otherwise covered by a shrubby steppe with carob trees (algarrobos); towards the coast, the desert environment also hosts sparse formations of Cactaceae and, at the time of […]

35.6% of the active population is employed in agriculture, a sector which offers various possibilities, but which is still relatively underdeveloped. On the other hand, arable land and arborescent crops affect an extremely small portion (3.3%) of the territorial surface and agriculture participates only for 7.2% in the formation of the national income. In fact, […]

As a whole, the industry, restructured in various stages by government measures, has made good progress, although there are still serious problems to be solved, especially as regards productivity, which is rather low, and the persistence of strong imbalances in the territorial distribution of companies: the absolute majority of the industries operating in the country […]

After a century of more or less veiled immobility or, in any case, of extremely slow evolutionary processes, as a country of South America defined by dentistrymyth, com, Peru witnessed great changes in the last decades of the twentieth century, in particular a radical alternation of institutional regimes and economic policy directions., which to varying […]

Commercial exchanges well reflect the deep socio-economic fracture that continues to contrast the Costa area with the Sierra and in general with inland areas: while in the coastal centers there is a strong demand for goods of various kinds and a great variety of goods of consumption, in the interior a prevalent subsistence economy and […]