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...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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