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The Natural World
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Few countries are as rugged, as forbidding and as wildly
diverse as Peru. The third-largest country in South Amer-
ica - at 1,285,220 sq km - it is ive times larger than the
UK, almost twice the size of Texas and one-sixth the size
of Australia. It lies in the tropics, south of the equator,
straddling three strikingly diferent geographic zones: the
arid Paciic coast, the craggy Andes mountain range and
a good portion of the Amazon Basin.
