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| Location | Western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador |
| Geographic coordinates | 10 00 S, 76 00 W |
| Map references | south_america |
| Area |
total: 1,285,220 sq km water: 5,220 sq km land: 1.28 million sq km |
| Area comparative | slightly smaller than Alaska |
| Land boundaries |
total: 5,536 km border countries: bolivia 900 km, brazil 1,560 km, chile 160 km, colombia 1,496 km (est.), ecuador 1,420 km |
| Coastline | 2,414 km |
| Maritime claims |
territorial sea: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm |
| Climate | varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to frigid in Andes |
| Terrain | western coastal plain (costa), high and rugged Andes in center (sierra), eastern lowland jungle of Amazon Basin (selva) |
| Elevation extremes |
lowest point: pacific ocean 0 m highest point: nevado huascaran 6,768 m |
| Natural resources | copper, silver, gold, petroleum, timber, fish, iron ore, coal, phosphate, potash, hydropower, natural gas |
| Land use |
arable land: 2.89% permanent crops: 0.4% other: 96.71% (2001) |
| Irrigated land | 11,950 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards | earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, landslides, mild volcanic activity |
| Environment - current issues | deforestation (some the result of illegal logging); overgrazing of the slopes of the costa and sierra leading to soil erosion; desertification; air pollution in Lima; pollution of rivers and coastal waters from municipal and mining wastes |
| Environment - international agreements | party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
| Geography note | shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake, with Bolivia; a remote slope of Nevado Mismi, a 5,316 m peak, is the ultimate source of the Amazon River |
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