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Spanish Living Language Calendars
Spanish Living Language Calendars



BOOKS ABOUT PERU & SOUTH AMERICA

Footprint Peru, Bolivia, & Ecuador
Footprint Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador

Ancient South America
Ancient South America

South American Table
The South American Table
(cooking)

South American Animals
South American Animals


Central & South America
Central
& South America




Peruvian Coffee




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Peru Posters, Art Prints, Charts, Photographs & Maps
for social studies classrooms, home schoolers, offices.


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Peru Maps
Peru Map

(12º2'36"S 77º1'42"W)

Peru Flag
Peru Flag


South America Political Map, Art Print
South America
Political Map,
Art Print

The Republic of Peru is located in western South America, bordering the Pacific Ocean on the west, Ecuador and Colombia on the north, Brazil on the east, southeast and south, and Chile on the south.

The west of Peru is a coastal plain, the central area is the Andes Mountains and the eastern part of Peru is covered by the Amazonian rainforest. Peru is considered the cradle of the Inca Empire.

Lima, located on the Pacific coast, once the capital of Spanish colonial is the capital of modern Peru; Cusco, located in the Andes near Machu Picchu, was the capital of the Incas.

The source of the name Peru is derived from the name of an indigenous ruler, Birú, who lived close to the Bay of San Miguel, Panama, at the time of the Spanish Conquistadors.



The Inca ruins of Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains, Photographic Print
The Inca ruins of Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains,
Photographic Print

(13º09'47"S 72º32'44"W)

Machu Picchu, one of the most recognized image of the Inca Empire, was built as an estate of an Inca emperor, the site chosen for its sacred landscape features in alignment with key astronomical events.

Situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba River valley in the Andes Mountains of Peru, Machu Picchu was known to the local population before being brought to international attention in 1911 by historian Hiram Bingham.

It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983.

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Uros Indian Floating Village, Lake Titicaca, Photographic Print
Uros Indian Floating Village, Lake Titicaca, Photographic Print

Lake Titicaca is the world's highest commercially navigable lake, the largest freshwater lake in South America, and 2nd largest in the world.

Adobe Houses and Wheat Bundles in Colquecachi District, Amantani Island, Puno, Peru Giclee Print
Adobe Houses and Wheat Bundles in Colquecachi District, Amantani Island, Puno, Peru Giclee Print










Lake Titicaca, in the Andes Mountains, strattles the border between Peru & Bolivia.

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Fishermen paddle their cabillitos de totora reed boats out through waves, Pimentel, Peru Giclee Print
Fishermen paddle their cabillitos de totora reed boats out through waves, Pimentel, Peru
Giclee Print

People on steep and narrow street with Incan stone wall, Cuzco, Peru Giclee Print
Incan stone wall, Cuzco, Peru
Giclee Print

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Costumed Dancers at The Fiesta de la Virgen del Carmen, Pisac, Cuzco, Peru Photographic Print
Costumed Dancers at the Fiesta de la Virgen del Carmen, Pisac, Cuzco, Peru Photographic Print

Traditionally Dressed Baby at Market, Pisac, Cuzco, Peru, Giclee Print
Traditionally Dressed Baby at Market, Pisac, Cuzco, Peru,
Giclee Print

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Aymara Indian Women Sitting Together, Puno, Peru Giclee Print
Aymara Indian Women Sitting Together, Puno, Peru Giclee Print

Traditionally Dressed Weaver Working, Pisac, Cuzco, Peru Giclee Print
Traditionally Dressed Weaver Working, Pisac, Cuzco, Peru
Giclee Print

Native American posters


Llamas in full dress from the Alto Plano (High Plain) Region, Puno, Peru Giclee Print
Llamas in full dress from the Alto Plano (High Plain) Region, Puno, Peru
Giclee Print

Llamas are camelids (related to camels), and are used as a pack and meat animal by Andean cultures since pre-colombian times. Llamas coats are also important - their fine undercoats are used for handicrafts and garments and the coarser outer guard hair is used for rugs, wall-hangings and lead ropes.

Baby llamas are called crias.

8,000 year old petroglyph detail of a Llama in rhe Mollepunco Caves on the Alto Plano, Peru Giclee Print
8,000 year old petroglyph detail of a Llama in rhe Mollepunco Caves on the Alto Plano, Peru
Giclee Print








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A Candlelit Procession makes its way around the Plaza de Armas., Lima, Peru Giclee Print
A Candlelit Procession makes its way around the Plaza de Armas, Lima, Peru Giclee Print

Lima, the capital and largest city of Peru (and fifth largest in Latin America), is located on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean midway between the northern border with Equador and southern border with Chile.

Pizarro established the Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings) in 1535 but the Spanish pronounciation of the local name, Limaq, became the commonly used name.

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The Execution of the Inca King Atahualpa in Cajamarca in 1533, Giclee Print
The Execution of the Inca King Atahualpa in Cajamarca in 1533, Giclee Print

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
b. c. 1550; Peru
d. after 1616

Known both as Guaman Poma or Human Poma in his native Quechua language, and de Ayala as his Spanish name, was the son of an indigenous noble Peruvian. He served as a translator and wrote and illustrated the 1200 page The First New Chronicle and Good Government between 1600 and 1615, addressed to King Philip III.

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Francisco Pizarro Giclee Print
Francisco Pizarro
Giclee Print

Francisco Pizarro
b. c. 1475, Spain
d. 6-26-1541 (assassinated)

Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador – a conqueror in search of gold and glory in the New World. ...

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Discovering the Potato, Giclee Print
Discovering the Potato, Giclee Print

Discovering the Potato -
The first European to see the potato, a plant native to Peru and cultivated there for 7,000 years, was Pedro de Cieza de Leon (1518–1560), a Spanish Conquistador and historian, in 1540. The potato was introduced to Europe circa 1570, Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the potato, a food that was considered fit only for the poor, to Ireland in 1589.


Simón Bolivar, Hispanic Heritage, Wall Poster
Simón Bolivar, Hispanic Heritage, Wall Poster


Simón Bolivar
b. 7-24-1783; Caracas, Venezuela
d. 12-17-1830; Santa Marta, Colombia (tuberculosis)

Simón Bolivar is often called “the George Washington of South America.” His heroic deeds helped many South American nations win their independence. During his lifetime, he helped millions of Latin Americans realize the dream of freedom. But he died without ever seeing his own fondest dream come true.

Simón Bolivar was born to a wealthy family in Caracas, Venezuela. His parents died when he was just a child, and he inherited a fortune. While on a trip to Europe, he met and married a young Spanish girl. But she died a short time after they returned to Caracas. Returning to Europe, Bolivar vowed that he would one day liberate Venezuela from the Spanish. He fulfilled this promise in 1811 when he captured Caracas and proclaimed Venezuela independent. The Spanish fought back, and soon forced Bolivar to flee to Jamaica and then to Haiti. But Bolivar gathered a force of fighting men and returned to South America. There, his victories over the Spanish led to independence for Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador.

Bolivar's dream was to unite all the countries of South America into one large and powerful nation. But one by one, the countries withdrew from the Colombian Union, as Bolivar called his union. By 1828, Simón Bolivar ruled only what is now Colombia. In 1830 health problems forced him to resign as Colombia's President, and he died in December of that year.

Hispanic Heritage posters
Panama


General José de San Martín, Giclee Print
General José de San Martín, Giclee Print

General José de San Martín
b. 2-25-1778; Argentina
d. 8-17-1850; France

San Martin is a National Hero in Argentina, Chile, & Peru


The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables"
The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables"

Mario Vargas Llosa
b. 3-28-1936; Arequipa, Peru

Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat”.

Maris Vargas Llosa quotes ~
• “If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.”
• “You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.”
• “No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.”


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