Worth knowing
Peru
More than 4,000 kinds of native potato grow in the Andes. Spanish ships carried the first ones to Europe in the 1500s, and within a few centuries the potato was feeding much of the world.
Where its story happens
Machu Picchu, at 13.16°S, 72.55°W. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Peru
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Peru, on the Pacific coast of South America, south of Ecuador. See Peru on a map.
- Its mountaintop Inca city, Machu Picchu, was little known to the outside world until 1911.
- Giant drawings of a hummingbird, a monkey and a spider were scratched into its desert about 2,000 years ago.
- The Amazon River begins in its mountains.
- The potato was first farmed high in the Andes in and around this country, and thousands of kinds still grow there.