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Coropuna is a dormant compound volcano located in the Andes mountains of southeast-central Peru. The upper reaches of Coropuna consist of several perennially snowbound conical summits, lending it the name Nevado Coropuna in Spanish. The complex extends over an area of 240 square kilometres (93 sq mi) and its highest summit reaches an altitude of 6,377 metres (20,922 ft) above sea level. This makes the Coropuna complex the third-highest of Peru. Its thick ice cap is the most extensive in Earth's tropical zone, with several outlet glaciers stretching out to lower altitudes. Below an elevation of 5,000 metres (16,000 ft), there are various vegetation belts which include trees, peat bogs, grasses and also agricultural areas and pastures.

The Coropuna complex consists of several stratovolcanoes. These are composed chiefly of ignimbrites and lava flows on a basement formed by Middle Miocene ignimbrites and lava flows. The Coropuna complex has been active for at least five million years, with the bulk of the current cone having been formed during the Quaternary. Coropuna has had two or three Holocene eruptions 2,100 ± 200 and either 1,100 ± 100 or 700 ± 200 years ago which generated lava flows, plus an additional eruption which may have taken place some 6,000 years ago. Current activity occurs exclusively in the form of hot springs. (Full article...)

The Peruvian Legislative Palace (Spanish: Palacio Legislativo) houses the unicameral Congress of the Republic of Peru (Congreso de la República) with its 120 Members of Congress (Congresistas). The current building was finished in 1938, during the presidency of Óscar R. Benavides. It is located on Bolívar Square, named in honor of the South American independence leader Simón Bolívar whose statue is in front of the building. (more...)

The Battle of Callao (in Spanish, sometimes called el Combate del Dos de Mayo in South America, or Guerra del Pacífico in Spain) occurred on May 2, 1866 between a Spanish fleet under the command of Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez and an alliance of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador, in the Peruvian port city of Callao during the Chincha Islands War. The Spanish fleet bombarded the port of Callao (or El Callao), but eventually withdrew without any major damage to the city structures. (more...)

• November  3, 1991 - The Barrios Altos massacre took place in the Barrios Altos neighborhood of Lima.

• November 16, 1532 - During the Spanish conquest of Peru, a group of Spaniards led by Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca.

• November 18, 1780 - The Battle of Sangarará was fought during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire between rebel forces under Túpac Amaru II and Spanish colonial forces.

• November 20, 2002 - Decentralization through the Regions of Peru was put into effect by elections for their regional governments.

• November 25, 1975 - Operation Condor (Spanish: Operación Cóndor) a campaign of political repressions involving assassination and intelligence operations was implemented.

Since 2016, Peru has been plagued with political instability and a growing crisis, initially between the President, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Congress, led de facto by Keiko Fujimori. The crisis emerged in late 2016 and early 2017 as the polarization of Peruvian politics increased, as well as a growing schism between the executive and legislative branches of government. Fujimori and her Fujimorist supporters would use their control of Congress to obstruct the executive branch of successive governments, resulting with a period of political instability in Peru.

Afflicted by corruption, Congress launched an attempt to remove President Kuczynski from power in December 2017, which failed. Following the emergence of a vote buying scandal related to the pardon of Alberto Fujimori in March 2018, Kuczynski resigned under pressure of impeachment. Kuczynski's successor Martín Vizcarra similarly had tense relations with Congress. During Vizcarra's efforts to combat corruption, he dissolved Congress and decreed snap elections in January 2020, which led to Popular Force losing its majority in Congress. Following corruptions scandals and an impeachment attempt in September 2020, Vizcarra was successfully removed and replaced by Manuel Merino on 9 November 2020, which sparked unrest. After five days in office, Merino resigned. His successor, Francisco Sagasti, briefly stabilized the country while having tense relations with Congress. (Full article...)

• ... that Peruvian Viagra grows on the roots of plants?
• ... that Swedish naval officer Axel Lagerbielke was imprisoned in Lima for over a year, held in Callao and eventually escaped from Panama on an English packet boat to Jamaica?
• ... that the decisive participation of a Peruvian cavalry unit in the Battle of Junín led Simón Bolívar to rename them the Hussars of Junín?
• ... that sisters Talia and Tori DellaPeruta, college teammates at North Carolina, play soccer professionally for Sampdoria?
• ... that Óscar Catacora directed Wiñaypacha (Eternity), the first Peruvian film in the Aymara language?
• ...that the Locumba uprising was thought by many to be a cover for the escape of Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's de facto leader from 1990 to 2000?
• ... that the Shining Path used squatting as a tactic to gain support during the internal conflict in Peru?
• ... that a bust of former Peruvian president Justiniano Borgoño was stolen from its pedestal by thieves?

• ...that the city of Cusco (pictured), the former capital of the Inca Empire, has the highest ultraviolet light level on Earth?
• ...that in the 1990s, the Peruvian economy underwent a process of liberalization which discarded protectionism and privatized state companies?
• ...that in the 1941 Ecuadorian–Peruvian war a Peruvian paratroop unit carried out the first airborne combat operation in the Western Hemisphere?
• ...that it has been suggested that climate changes provoked by an El Niño event played an important part in the collapse of the Moche civilization?
• ...that in 1984, during the internal conflict in Peru, members of the Peruvian Army massacred 123 men, women and children in the town of Putis?

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