Portal:Peru/Did you know/2


 * ...that the city of Cusco (pictured), the former capital of the Inca Empire, has the highest ultraviolet light level on Earth?
 * ...that in the 1990s, the Peruvian economy underwent a process of liberalization which discarded protectionism and privatized state companies?
 * ...that in the 1941 Ecuadorian–Peruvian war a Peruvian paratroop unit carried out the first airborne combat operation in the Western Hemisphere?
 * ...that it has been suggested that climate changes provoked by an El Niño event played an important part in the collapse of the Moche civilization?
 * ...that in 1984, during the internal conflict in Peru, members of the Peruvian Army massacred 123 men, women and children in the town of Putis?