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Country from which "The Amazon" starts, one that has the rainbow mountains, largest sand dune of the world, Peru. It is a country with diverse landscape, desert, coastline and mountains, its all there. Peru is a place with dramatic ecology as well. Listen in to know more. www.chimesradio.com http://onelink.to/8uzr4g https://www.facebook.com/chimesradio/ https://www.instagram.com/vrchimesradio/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/chimesradio See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1:The land of Rainbow Mountains, also the country that has the highest sand dune in the world, and the one which has three thousand different varieties of potatoes. It is Peru for us in this episode of Little Explorers. Officially called the Republic of Peru, It's a country with a huge Pacific coast. It lies in the north western part of South America. It's bordered in the north by Ecuador and Columbia. On its east is Brazil, on the southeast is Bolivia, south is Chile, and the west and the south has Pacific Ocean. Capital of Peru is LIMA official language is Spanish, Quetua, Aymara and some other indigenous languages, and the people living there are called Peruvians. Peru is a mega diverse country with plains along the Pacific coastal side and Andy's Mountains from the north to the southeast part of the country. There also is Amazon Basin rainforest in the east side alongside the Amazon River, and historically Peru was home to various ancient cultures. There are some definite amazing things about this country. First, in the foremost, the highest sand dune in the world. It is three thousand and eight sixty feet high and right next to
Speaker 1:it is an oasis town who Archa, China. The sand dune is called Kero Blanco and it is available for people to sandboard it. Another amazing place is the city called Machu Pichu. It is an excavated city. It was discovered in nineteen eleven. It's a hand built city ever since then. It's a place which has a lot of people intrigue in it. This place is the landmark of this country. There is also Lake Titikaka, which is the highest navigable lake in the world, though it's a smaller lake than other lakes in the world, but there are islands amid the lake where people still live. If you look at the country from an aerial view, there are distinct giant human and animal geographs that can be noticed from the aerial view. It includes more than seventy human figures in animal figures which are made of more than ten thousand lines and they run across thirty miles. The country is so diverse that it boasts to having ninety different microclimates inside it, thus giving it way to a diverse ecology as well. There are close to five thousand species of fishing animals. More than thousand species of birds,
Speaker 1:more than thousand that of butterflies, and also more than two fifty species of reptiles which are found in the parks across the country. The country also holds the world record of sighting of maximum number of birds in one place in a single day. Winnie Kunka Mountain, which is also known as Rainbow Mountain, is one of its kind place where the mountains are of beautiful shades of colors, starting from snow capped peaks to neon red color to green marshy meadows, and it looks breadthtakingly beautiful. The world's longest river, the Amazon, is the one which starts in this country. Peru is unique as it grows more than fifty varieties of corns and three thousand varieties of potatoes.
Speaker 1:There is also Poa raimondi, which is the world's tallest flowering plant, which can even dagg up to one hundred years or more to bloom, and each plant can have eight thousand white flowers which look a little like lily and the unique thing about this plant is that it blooms only once in its lifetime. The country has world's first hanging lodge, which is ideal for people who like to climb, hike or ziplin. Well, we know that penguins are there in those places where there is a lot of snow, but you can find penguins in Peru as well.
Speaker 1:The highest point of the country is Mount Jurascin, which lies in the Andes Mountain Range. Now, let us quickly take a look at the flag of this country. Peru's flag is a vertical bicolor try stripe. The first and the last stripe, which is the hoist side in the fly side, are of red color and the stripe in the middle is white in color. That's the flag of Peru for us. For other countries, they're flags and interesting things about them. Listen to more episodes and don't forget to like, follow, subscribe, and share Little Explorers
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Little Explorers - Countries In The World
by Chimes · English · Kids & Family
"Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience" — Francis Bacon Do you know there are a total of 195 UN recognized countries in the world? Do you know Russia is the largest country in the world? Do you know Vatican City is the smallest country in the…
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