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Peru straddles the great Andean mountain range, whose snow-capped peaks rise to over 5,000 m. It is flanked to the west by a coastal littoral of semi-desert, caused by the cooling waters of the Humboldt Current; and to the east by a huge area of tropical forest in the Amazon headwaters. The population has exploded over the past century by a factor of 5.6, with Lima, the capital, now supporting, if that is the word, some eight million inhabitants.
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Campbell, C.J. (2013). Peru. In: Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3576-1_55
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