Peru map quiz
Explore cities, mountains and waters of Peru!
Quizzes in this pack
Peru: cities, mountains.
| Cities | 8 questions |
| Mountains | 4 questions |
Sample questions
- The capital on the Pacific coast, founded by Pizarro in 1535, gastronomic capital of South America
- Answer: Lima
- Former Inca capital in the Andes at 3,400 m, gateway to Machu Picchu
- Answer: Cusco
- The White City in the south, built of volcanic sillar stone, in the shadow of El Misti volcano
- Answer: Arequipa
- Northern coastal city, near the ancient Moche and Chimú ruins of Chan Chan
- Answer: Trujillo
- Largest city in the world not reachable by road, deep in the Amazon rainforest
- Answer: Iquitos
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Lima
Pacific coast of Peru
Lima was founded in 1535 by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro and was the capital of Spain's empire in South America. It lies in a coastal desert where it almost never rains, though grey sea mist often hangs over the city.
- Founded
- 1535
- Did you know?
- Ceviche, raw fish cured in lime juice, is Peru's national dish
Arequipa
Southern Peru
Arequipa, Peru's second city after Lima, is called the White City because many of its old buildings are made of sillar, a pale volcanic stone. The cone of El Misti volcano rises above the cathedral, and the Santa Catalina Monastery, a walled town of nuns, fills a whole block of the centre.
- Founded
- 1540
- Known for
- Sillar buildings, El Misti, the Colca Canyon nearby
- Rings a bell?
- The Nobel Prize-winning writer Mario Vargas Llosa was born here in 1936
Iquitos
Peruvian Amazon
Iquitos is the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road, deep in the Amazon rainforest of Peru. It grew rich in the rubber boom of the late 1800s, and in its Belén district houses float on the river and rise and fall with the water.
- Known for
- No roads, the rubber boom, floating houses
- Rings a bell?
- Werner Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo, from 1982, about a man who dreams of an opera house in the jungle, is set and filmed here
Huancayo
Mantaro Valley, central Andes
Huancayo is a highland city in the Mantaro Valley of central Peru, at about 3,250 metres. Its Sunday market stretches for blocks, and one of the highest railways in the world climbs over the Andes from Lima to reach it.
- Known for
- The Sunday market, the high railway, the valley
Cordillera Occidental
Western Peru
The Cordillera Occidental is the western chain of the Andes in Peru, closest to the Pacific. It includes the Cordillera Blanca, the largest tropical glacier range in the world, with Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain, and further south the volcanoes around Arequipa.
- Highest point
- Huascarán, 6,768 m
- Did you know?
- In 1970 an earthquake broke ice and rock off Huascarán, and the avalanche buried the town of Yungay
Cordillera Oriental
Eastern Peru, toward the Amazon
The Cordillera Oriental is the eastern chain of the Andes in Peru, dropping toward the Amazon rainforest. Around Cusco it holds snowy peaks such as Salkantay and Ausangate, and Machu Picchu sits on a ridge on its jungle-covered eastern slope.
- Highest point
- Ausangate, 6,384 m
- Did you know?
- Thousands of pilgrims climb to a glacier near Ausangate every year for the Qoyllur Rit'i festival
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
