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Peru’s Three Worlds — a note

Comparison

⚠ A WARNING ROW. Peru is conventionally read as three longitudinal strips and the food differs completely across them. COSTA — a narrow desert coast crossed by short rivers, watered by irrigation, fed by the Humboldt Current, and holding Lima and most of the population. SIERRA — the Andes, from valley floors to puna above 4,000 m, with the potato and maize diversity and the Quechua and Aymara communities. SELVA — the Amazon, roughly 60 per cent of the national territory and a small share of its people, with cassava, river fish and dozens of Indigenous peoples. ⚠ PERU IS NOT CEVICHE, NOT POTATOES, NOT THE INCA AND NOT LIMA.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Peruvians community documented

Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Peru is conventionally divided into costa, sierra and selva, three longitudinal strips with materially different agriculture, fisheries and foodways; roughly 60 per cent of the national territory is Amazon. Peruvian foodways are recorded as a national system spanning all three and are not treated as Andean, coastal or Limeño alone. documented

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