Peru is the Andean country of Machu Picchu and the Incas. Travel to Peru, the coast of Peru, Peruvian food.
It runs from desert coast through the Andes to Amazon rainforest, which is why it has such range in climate and in food. Machu Picchu was built about 1450 and abandoned within a century. The Inca empire was the largest in pre-Columbian America and ran without writing or the wheel. Note Peruvian; and that the potato was domesticated in this region.
1nounperuA country on the western coast of South America.
“Peru has about thirty-four million people.”
peru is a country.
Quechua
pelu — river
Spanish
Perú
English
Peru
English, today
peru
Peru Spanish Perú, possibly from the personal name Birú, or from the Quechua pelu (“river”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA