Peru: Interesting Facts for Everyone
A quick introduction to Peru’s location, languages, landscapes, history, food and well-known places.
Journey from Peru’s Pacific coast across the Andes and down into the Amazon, exploring living cultures, remarkable wildlife and ingenious ways of building and farming.
Peru lies on the western side of South America. Its landscapes include a dry Pacific coast, high Andean valleys and tropical Amazon forest.
Peru is also home to large modern cities, rural communities and many Indigenous cultures and languages. These resources invite your family to explore how geography, history and everyday life connect—without imagining that every place or person in Peru is the same.
Build a picture of Peru through its geography, places, people and the remarkable fibre of the wild vicuña.
A quick introduction to Peru’s location, languages, landscapes, history, food and well-known places.
Travel across Peru from home and gather questions about the Andes, Amazon, cities, wildlife and culture.
Discover the fine fibre of the wild vicuña and explore how animal fibres, natural dyes and textile traditions connect with Andean life.
Follow a festival journey through the Andes towards Cusco, meeting landscapes, music and traditions along the way.
Laurie Krebs’ rhyming story follows travellers moving through the Andes towards Cusco for the Inti Raymi festival.
Explore a food tradition with care, then review Peru’s geography, history and culture through an interactive quiz.
A cultural food video about cuy. Preview it before sharing because it discusses—and may show—an animal many children know as a pet being prepared as food.
An interactive quiz to revisit Peru’s geography, landscapes, wildlife, history and culture.
Follow your curiosity into Andean engineering, high-altitude wildlife, ancient farming and the Amazon watershed.
Investigate how Inca stonework fitted together, how woven-grass bridges cross deep gorges, why vicuñas thrive at altitude and how water travels from the Andes into the Amazon.
How can altitude change the weather, farming, homes and animals within the same country?
Take this topic further with our beautifully illustrated printable lesson, made for exploring together at home.
Journey through mountains, rainforest and ancient cities in a country full of biodiversity and living traditions.
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Every Sunday we release a new wonder-led lesson: one big question for your family to explore together at home. Here’s this week’s.
Follow the wonder of moving pictures, meet early cinema pioneers and begin a small film story of your own.
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