Category:Physiographic regions of Peru

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[edit] Physiographic Regions

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When the Spanish arrived, they divided Peru (because of political reasons) into three main regions: the Coast, that is bounded by the Pacific Ocean; the Highlands, that is located on the Andean Heights, and the Jungle, that is located on the Amazonian Jungle. But Javier Pulgar Vidal, a geographer that studied the biogeographic reality of the Peruvian territory for a long time, proposed the creation of eight Natural Regions. In 1941, the III General Assembly of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History approved this motion.

These eight Peruvian regions are:

• Chala or Coast
• Yunga
• Quechua
• Suni or Jalca
• Puna
• Janca
• Rupa - Rupa or High Jungle
• Omagua or Low Jungle