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• the tsunami triggered by the 1868 Arica earthquake, that led to 25,000 deaths in Peru and northern Chile, caused damage and at least one death in New Zealand?
• the Battle of Sangarará was a decisive victory for rebel forces under Túpac Amaru II against the Spanish in Peru?
• the Peruvian village Písac gets its name from a ruined Incan citadel which represents the wing of a partridge?
• the Peruvian song "El Cóndor Pasa" was popularised by a 1970 cover version by Simon and Garfunkel, although the original Quechua lyrics were entirely re-written?
• the Peruvian playwright Juan de Espinosa Medrano wrote plays both in Spanish and in Quechua during the 17th century?
• the Odriíst National Union was a 1960s Peruvian political party based on a cult of personality focussed on former President Manuel A. Odría?
• the German architect Walter Gropius visited Peru in order to attend a graduation ceremony at the National University of Engineering Faculty of Architecture?
• the natural habitats of the Short-tailed Emerald are moist lowland forests and montanes and heavily degraded former forests in Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela?
• under the 2002 Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act the United States eliminated tariffs on 6,300 products from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru?
• the festival of Qoyllur Rit'i (pictured) in the Cusco Region of Peru commemorates events which included the transformation of a boy into a bush with an image of Christ hanging from it?
• the discovery of Icadyptes salasi, a prehistoric five-foot-tall penguin in Peru, has caused scientists to reconsider the timeline of penguin evolution?
• the Law Library of Congress created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil, Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru, and Romania?
• the palm Aiphanes deltoidea, which occurs across a broad area encompassing parts of Colombia, Peru and Brazil, is present at such low densities that it is considered a rare species?
• in 2006, only 79% of the population in Peru had access to electricity, well below the 94.6% average for Latin America?
• Amantaní, an island on Lake Titicaca, is also known as the "Island of the Kantuta", the national flower of Peru and Bolivia?
• double cloth or double-woven cloth (pictured) is a type of weaving used in Pre-Columbian Peru and Victorian furnishing textiles in which two or more sets of warps and one or more sets of weft or filling yarns are interconnected to form a two-layered cloth?
• Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru?
• Puerto Rican businessman Fermín Tangüis developed the Tanguis cotton in Peru and was given the Order of the Sun medal (pictured)?
• Peruvian artist Jorge Eielson is considered a precursor of conceptual art for his quipus, reinterpretations of an ancient Andean device?
• John Randolph Tucker served as an officer in the navies of the United States, the Confederate States, and Peru?
  
• José Sabogal was "the most renowned early supporter" of the artistic indigenist movement of Peru?
• best-selling author Laurence Leamer, author of The Kennedy Women, spent two years in Peru while researching the cocaine trade for his book Assignment?
• according to the National Geographic Society, Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva found the richest unlooted pre-Columbian tomb in the Western Hemisphere?
• Sabancaya, a 5,976 m (19,606 ft) stratovolcano in the Andes, is the most active volcano in Peru?
• reed boats (pictured), made with reeds such as the papyrus, have been used for at least 7000 years and are still built in Peru and Ethiopia?
• China and Peru are expected to sign a free trade agreement during the 2008 APEC summit?

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