Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

** Eunectes murinus, the green anaconda, the largest species, is found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and on the island of Trinidad.

There is a long history of mining in the Andes, from the Spanish silver mines in Potosí in the 16th century to the vast current porphyry copper deposits of Chuquicamata and Escondida in Chile and Toquepala in Peru.

* 1540 – Arequipa, Peru, is founded.

Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.

Ayahuasca is the Hispanicized spelling of a word in the Quechua languages, which are spoken in the Andean states of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia.

The Norte Chico civilization included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru.

In 1969, Colombia formed what is now the Andean Community along with Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru ( Venezuela joined in 1973, and Chile left in 1976 ).

The cane toad is native to the Americas, and its range stretches from the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas to the central Amazon and southeastern Peru.

The PCC is a biennial event, and was held for the second time in Lima, Peru, in November 2010.

( In Peru and much of Spanish-speaking South America, " Kola " with a " K " is the generic term used for any flavor of carbonated soft drink, not only colas ).

It is the number one selling soft drink in Peru outselling Coca-Cola nationwide.

This bright yellow bubble-gum-flavored carbonated beverage is especially popular in Peru, once the heartland of the Inca Empire, but Inca Kola also sells well in surrounding countries.

In Peru, Pepsi is bottled and distributed by Pepsico Inc Sucursal Del Peru.

* 2004 – The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, establishing the South American Community of Nations.

He participated in the Spanish conquest of Peru and is credited as the first European discoverer of Chile.

It is unclear whether this first expedition was the expedition by Jacques l ' Hermite to the coast of Chile, Peru and Bolivia, set up by Stadthouder Maurice with the support of the States General and the VOC.

The trade balance with the United States, Chile, the European Union, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil and Mexico is positive.

There is no railway service to Peru.

Goeldi's marmoset or Goeldi's monkey ( Callimico goeldii ) is a small, South American New World monkey that lives in the upper Amazon Basin region of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

The IMI Galil, an Israeli-designed weapon similar to the AK-47, is in use by Israel, Italy, Myanmar, the Philippines, Peru, and Colombia.

A German Government report on fuel prices dated 2010 / 11 stated that the Imperial gallon is used as a unit of measure for fuel in Guyana, United Arab Emirates and Antigua and Barbuda and the US gallon in Liberia, Belize, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar ( Burma ), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and the United States.

It is sometimes called vegetable ivory, or tagua, and is the seed endosperm of the ivory nut palm commonly found in coastal rainforests of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.

* 2001 – A fire at the Mesa Redonda shopping center in Lima, Peru, kills at least 291.

* 2009 – After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.

In the Americas, pre-Inca civilizations of the central Andes in Peru had mastered the smelting of copper and silver at least six centuries before the first Europeans arrived in the 16th century.

** At least 1, 400 people are killed in an earthquake measuring 7. 4 on the Richter Scale, in the Ancash Region and Quiches District in Peru.

Natives of Peru had been producing cochineal dyes for textiles since at least 700 CE, but Europeans had never seen the color before.

According to the British Geological Survey, in 2005, Chile was the top mine producer of copper with at least one-third world share followed by the United States, Indonesia and Peru.

According to legal documents recently found in the U. S. National Archives of San Francisco, California, it has been proven that at least until 1864, Pisco was considered in the United States a liquor native only to the Republic of Peru.

Looking at the history of the languages, however, rather than their current distribution, it is clear that Aymara was once spoken much further north, at least as far north as central Peru, where most Andean linguists feel it is most likely that Aymara originated ( see ' Geography ' below ).

The United States provided technical support and supplied military aid to the participants until at least 1978, with Ecuador and Peru joining later in more peripheral roles.

Transhumance is currently practiced at least in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Bolivia, as well as in the Brazilian Pantanal.

It winters on both coasts, from the mid-Atlantic states south to at least Brazil on the Atlantic, and from Oregon south to Peru on the Pacific.

Whereas all of Europe has some 321 butterfly species, the Manu National Park in Peru ( 4000 hectare-survey ) has 1300 species, while Tambopata National Park ( 5500 hectare-survey ) has at least 1231 species.

These resources share the attribute that, at least in Peru, they were found, not grown.

In Peru, Asian Peruvians are estimated at least 5 % of the population.

In the mid-16th century, at least two slave ships from Panama, bound for Peru wrecked on the shores of what is now Esmeraldas province.

Though he was not a U. S. citizen, he was technically eligible to represent the U. S. in Davis Cup because he had lived in the country for at least five years and because his country of citizenship, Peru, did not have a Davis Cup team.

Range extends from extreme south-eastern Mexico to Amazonian Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in lowlands up to ( at least formerly ) up to.

Ticunas in Peru have had native language education at least since the 1960s.

Preliminary studies indicate that the species is not endemic to Bolivia, with habitats that may extend to the south of Peru ( at least to the Tambopata River ).

The Peruvians saw drugs as primarily a U. S. problem and the least of their concerns, given the economic crisis, Shining Path guerrillas, and an outbreak of cholera, which further isolated Peru because of a resulting ban on food imports.

First identified in the Sechura desert, the fox inhabits arid environments in southwestern Ecuador and western Peru, at elevations from sea level to at least, and possibly much higher.

Additionally, there is at least one reference in Melville's Moby Dick: ' I have seen doubloons now before in my voyagings ; your doubloons of old Spain ; your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan ; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes.

It was declared that the organization would follow the ideas carved by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, and, not least, to build on the examples and experience of Protracted People's Wars in Peru, Nepal, Philippines, India, Turkey and elsewhere.