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Jeffrey’s Thinking about How Gold Helps the Economy

          Out of all resources in Peru, gold brings in the most money to the economy. This may help boost up the economy but they are depending on this resource too much. This resource is hard to find and the quantity of gold on earth is low which caused it to be priced high. They can not completely depend on this resource because when you can’t find anymore the economy drops down low. Peru’s economy isn’t stable, one of the reasons could be because they depend on things that are not easy to find. Depending on each small resource would create a stable economy but to do it is hard.  So if one resource is low in quantity it would not affect as much. In conclusion both ways are good but some may be more stable.

Jeffrey’s Thinking about if you should visit Peru or not

            From the tourist attractions Macchu Picchu is one of the places I would recommend going to because it has a lot of history culture about Peru. It may be a nice place to visit but some areas may be a bit more creep because Peru is a poor country so they may try to pickpocket. I think you should use you common sense and don’t go wandering around to places you do not know. As long as you stay in the tourist areas it may be more easy and safe to get around.

LIMA	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg. High (°C)	25	26	26	24	21	19	17	17	17	19	20	23
Avg. Low (°C)	19	20	19	18	16	15	14	13	13	14	16	17

              This is a chart of Lima, Peru’s average high and low temperature all year long.

Aiden’s Thinking

        I think Peru would be a nice place to visit because of great places like called Machu Picchu but has some terrible pollution that has been caused by trying (and not to successful) to catch up with the richer countries (first world countries) and become a first world country itself. A big problem in the way is that the country has big depts. to other countries and has to use a lot of the money they get by taxes and from there resources but still have depts. Even when they get billions from their natural resources and millions more from their industrial factories they can’t seem to pay back the depts. This makes it between poor and rich which for me is a reason not to go since it does not have enough clean water from the lack of money. So I think it is a great place to visit with all these amazing land marks and special cities but you would need to bring some money for clean water since 62% of the rural population get clean water. The country Peru seems to have everything a country could ask for, like gold, other precise metals, oil, and so much more but they had some bad presidents which just tried to stuff their pockets with money but had caused many depts. and need to harvest lots of resources well causing pollution. Some examples of the big pollution problems are deforestation which is their forest by being chopped down, another pollution problem is air pollution which affects Lima quite a bit and is from the industrial factories the last big pollution problem is water pollution which has caused less people to get clean water.

                    In all resources gold brings in the most money.  If they stopped mining there economy would drop a lot because most resources that are being exported are minerals. Peru’s economy is not very stable because they have many debts to pay. Keeping up with these exports would help them pay them, and create a strong economy for Peru.

Some of the resources in Peru are copper, gold, timber, fish, petroleum, iron ore, coal, phosphate, potash, natural gas, hydro power.

Some of the resources in Peru are copper, gold, timber, fish, petroleum, iron ore, coal, phosphate, potash, natural gas, hydro power.

The highest mountain in Peru is Huascaran Sur which is 6 746 meters high over sea level (elevation). 

All the land forms in Peru are the mountains, the coast, the jungle, and some river landforms.

The location of Peru is in Western South America, next to the South Pacific Ocean, and between Chile and Ecuador. The geographic coordinates of Peru is 100 00 S, 76 00 W.

Peru’s Natural Resources Peru has many natural resources that all the countries need like oil and gold. A big natural resource is there logging which has brought in lots of money for a long time. Some area has been cleared of trees and some of the trees are used for cedar and mahogany to build furniture and boat building (examples). Many of the mountain forests are cut down and most of Peru’s forests are not cut down since it would be too expensive to transport the trees over the mountains. Another natural resource is mining done in the mountains. Mining makes lots of money by natural resources and some metals are copper, silver, and gold. The usual people that are hired are natives (people that live there) since they’re used to the air level. Another natural resource is gold found in the jungle. Peru has attracted lots of adventurers in search for their gold. The first gold seekers were the Spanish which took lots of gold from the Incas (an old tribe that lived in Peru). When people were searching for gold they would make temporary cities. A natural resource that all countries wish they had is oil and Peru has lots of oil. There are large oil deposits (harvests) in Peru. Some of the first oil deposits are in the northern parts of the deserts. There have been many oil wells drilled in the northern parts of the rain forest. Once the oil has been dug out it is transported through pipelines that cross the mountains. The last natural resource I will be talking about is a very odd resource and the resource is guano (bird poop). The poop had piled up on some islands for thousands of years and then where harvested. The birds name is Guanay and the poop is used as fertilizer (like cow poop). Today the guano harvests are much smaller and part of that reason is the bird is endangered because of the lack of anchovies which were over fished.

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