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Peru is in the western zone of South America between the
equatorial line and the Tropic of Capricorn. ² covers an area with 1.285.215
km, which turns into the twentieth greater country in size of the Earth and
the third party of South America. It limits the north with Ecuador and
Colombia, the east with Brazil, the south-east with Bolivia, the south with
Chile and the west with the Pacific Ocean. It owns an enormous multiplicity
of landscapes due to its geographic conditions, which gives a great
diversity him of natural resources as well. The constitution expresses that
the marine dominion of Peru extends until the 200 marine miles.
The territory of Peru encuenta
determined by the plates South American and of Is born, which share a
convergent limit of subduction, that is to say, the Plate of Is born
subducciona on the South American parallel to the South American western
coast, at a speed average of 11cm/año. [mentions required] Product of this
subduction formed towards Jurassic the Grave of Peru-Chile as well as the
today well-known elevation like Mountain range of the $andes. The erosion of
the same has formed to the east a vast plain where before the appearance of
the $andes was a portion of sea; this sedimentary region is the amazonian
plain. That same erosive process is the cause of the escarped thing of the $andes.
Due to the tectonic subduction, Peru is a highly seismic country and
presents/displays regions with important vulcanism, mainly to the south. The
Peruvian territory is within the call Fire Belt of the Pacific.