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What do you know about Peru? Listen, read and check your
answers.

Peru is the third-largest country
in South America. People there
speak three languages: Spanish,
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Quechua and Aymara.

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The Amazon Rainforest covers
more than half of the country, and
lots of di erent plants and animals

live there. The Peruvian Amazon
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