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National development context

Peru, which has an area of 1,285,216 sq km, is located in the west of South America and borders the Pacific Ocean. To the north lies Ecuador; to the north-east, Colombia; to the east, Brazil; to the south-east, Bolivia; and to the south, Chile. On its territory are ecosystems recognized world-wide for their great diversity, such as the cold sea of the Peruvian Current, the dry forests on the north coast, the high forests, and the tropical Amazonian forests, where the diversity of species is the greatest. Peru has 69 million hectares of forests, and is the second country in Latin America and the fourth world-wide for tropical forests. The foggy forests, on the Eastern Andean slopes, are of enormous importance for world-wide biodiversity and the stability of the Amazonian river basin. The Peruvian sea is one of the most important fishing grounds on the planet. The country also has great mining wealth, including copper, silver, gold, petroleum, natural gas and coal, and a great potential for the generation of hydroelectric energy.

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development
Countries: Peru
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