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7 days ago — In astrology, Leo is the fifth sign of the zodiac, considered as governing the period from about July 23 to about August 22. Its representation ...

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The Inca are an Indigenous people of South America who ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands, from the ...

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2 Oct 2025 — Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, observed annually on June 19. It became a federal holiday in ...

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Dina Boluarte (born May 31, 1962, Chalhuanca, Peru) is a Peruvian politician who became the first woman president of Peru in December 2022.

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The coastal plain can be readily divided into three parts—north, central, and south—on the basis of the amount of level land and the distance between the Andean ...

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In 1539 the conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquered the area around present-day Ayacucho and named the city Huamanga. Many Spanish settlers ...

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The magnitude of the earthquake that caused a devastating tsunami in 2011 was 9.0. The earthquake occurred at 2:46 PM on March 11.

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Pedro Castillo is a Peruvian politician, union leader, and schoolteacher who served as president of Peru from 2021 to 2022, when he was removed from office ...

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El Callao, town, Bolívar estado (state), eastern Venezuela. It is situated on the right bank of the Yuruari River, about 135 miles (272 km) east-southeast ...

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Founded in 1926 by Rafael Larco Hoyle, the Larco Museum contains one of Peru's finest historical collections devoted to the country's pre-Columbian peoples.

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5 Sept 2025 — Hernando de Soto (b. c. 1496/97–d. 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who participated in the conquests of Central America and ...

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23 Aug 2025 — Ramón Castilla was a soldier and statesman who, as president or as the power behind the scene, dominated Peruvian politics for nearly 20 ...

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Paracas, culture centred on the peninsula of the same name, located in present-day southern Peru in the vicinity of Ica, during the Early Horizon and the Early ...

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Benito Juarez (1806–72) was president of Mexico from 1861 to 1872. For three years (1864–67), he fought against foreign occupation under the emperor ...

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Lesane Crooks was born to Afeni Shakur (née Alice Faye Williams), a member of the Black Panther Party, and she renamed him Tupac Amaru Shakur— ...

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The lake averages between 460 and 600 feet (140 and 180 metres) in depth, but the bottom tilts sharply toward the Bolivian shore, reaching its ...

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24 Sept 2025 — Explore the defining historical milestones of 2023, from technological advancements to international conflict.

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1 Oct 2025 — Túpac Amaru II was a Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru, with whom he was identified when he ...

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The Bolivian flag adopted on July 25, 1826, had horizontal stripes of yellow-red-green with a coat of arms in the centre. On November 5, 1851, ...

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Alberto Fujimori served as the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, when he was forced from office amid allegations of corruption.

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2 days ago — Alibaba is a Chinese multinational conglomerate that operates across e-commerce, cloud computing, digital media, and financial technology

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Bono (born May 10, 1960, Dublin, Ireland) is the lead singer for the popular Irish rock band U2 and a prominent human rights activist.

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Nuevo sol, monetary unit of Peru. It is divided into 100 centimos. The sol was introduced as the currency of Peru in the 1860s.

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Alan García (born May 23, 1949, Lima, Peru—died April 17, 2019, Lima) was a Peruvian politician who twice served as president of Peru (1985–90; 2006–11) ...Read more

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A number of natural disasters also made headlines, most notably Hurricane Helene and flooding in Spain. Prominent deaths in 2024 included Aleksey Navalny and ...

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4 days ago — Peru is essentially a tropical country, with its northern tip nearly touching the Equator. Despite its tropical location, a great diversity of ...

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Nazca Lines, groups of geoglyphs, large line drawings that appear, from a distance, to be etched into Earth's surface on the arid Pampa Colorada.

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Bolívar served as president of Gran Colombia (1819–30) and as dictator of Peru (1823–26). The country of Bolivia is named for him. What ...

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Policy of forced resettlement, or mitma, about this time, in order to ensure both loyalty to the state and better utilization of land resources.

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Generation Z, term used to describe Americans born during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Some sources give the specific year range of 1997–2012.

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On this day in 1996 a pipe bomb exploded in Olympic Centennial Park in Atlanta, Georgia, killing 1 person and injuring 111 in the first terrorist attack at ...

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4 days ago — Traditional Peruvian cuisine has much regional variation. In the highlands, most meals consist of potatoes along with other Andean tubers (oca and ulluco, for ...See more

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It freed Peru and ensured the independence of the nascent South American republics from Spain.

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9,000 men that won the Battle of Junín in Peru on August 6, 1824. Bolívar left the rest of the campaign in the hands of Sucre, who went on to rout a 9,000-man ...

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Our Lady of Guadalupe is the title given to the Virgin Mary in her appearance before St. Juan Diego in a vision in Mexico in 1531. Our Lady of Guadalupe ...

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Fernando Belaúnde Terry was a statesman, architect, and president of Peru (1963–68, 1980–85), known for his efforts at democratic reform and ...

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Most of the Nazca Lines were constructed more than 2,000 years ago by the people of the Nazca culture (c. 200 bce–600 ce), though some clearly ...

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Arica is situated near the Peruvian border and is the northernmost Chilean seaport. Founded as Villa de San Marcos de Arica in 1541 on the site ...

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lunar calendar, any dating system based on a year consisting of synodic months—i.e., complete cycles of phases of the Moon ...

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