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The Peru national football team represents Peru in men's international football. The national team has been organised, since 1927, by the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF). The FPF constitutes one of the ten members of FIFA's South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). Peru has won the Copa América twice, and has qualified for the FIFA World Cup five times (last appearing in 2018); the team also participated in the 1936 Olympic football competition and has reached the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. In the past, they were often considered 4th best in South America, after Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. The team plays most of its home matches at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, the country's capital.

The team is well known for its white shirts adorned with a diagonal red stripe, which combine Peru's national colours. This basic design has been used continuously since 1936, and gives rise to the team's common Spanish nickname, la Blanquirroja ("the white-and-red"). Peruvian football fans are known for their distinctive cheer ¡Arriba Perú! ("Onward Peru!"). Peru has a longstanding rivalry with Chile. (Full article...)

Alpamayo

Alpamayo (Spanish: Nevado Alpamayo) is one of the most conspicuous peaks in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of the Peruvian Andes. It is a steep (sixty degrees), almost perfect pyramid of ice, one of a number of peaks that compose the Santa Cruz massif, the northernmost massif of the Cordillera Blanca. Although smaller than many of its neighboring peaks, it is distinguished by its unusual formation and overwhelming beauty. It actually has two sharp summits, North and South, separated by a narrow corniced ridge. (more...)

The Battle of (or Massacre at) Cajamarca (November 16, 1532) was a surprise attack on the Inca royal entourage orchestrated by Francisco Pizarro. Sprung in the evening in the great plaza of Cajamarca, the ambush claimed the lives of thousands of Incas and achieved the goal of capturing Emperor Atahualpa. The confrontation at Cajamarca was the culmination of a months-long struggle involving espionage, subterfuge, and diplomacy between Pizarro and the Inca via their respective envoys. Atahualpa had received the invaders from a position of immense strength. Encamped along the heights of Cajamarca with legions of battle-tested troops fresh from their victories in the civil war against his half-brother Huáscar, the Inca felt they had little to fear from Pizarro's tiny army, however exotic its dress and weaponry. In a calculated show of goodwill, Atahualpa had lured the adventurers deep into the heart of his mountain empire where any potential threat could be met with a show of force. (more...)

• May  2, 1866 - In the Battle of Callao during the Chincha Islands War a Spanish Fleet took on an alliance of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador.

• May 12, 1551 - King Charles I of Spain charts by decree the National University of San Marcos making it the oldest university in the Americas.

• May 15, 1544 - Blasco Núñez Vela entered Lima, the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, as the first of forty viceroys designated by the Spanish Crown.

• May 20, 1929 - The Peruvian Air Force was created by merging the aviation divisions of the Army and the Navy.

• May 26, 1880 - In the Battle of Tacna the alliance between Bolivia and Peru is broken by the Chilean General Manuel Baquedano near the city of Tacna..

Reimond Orángel Manco Albarracín (born 23 August 1990) is a Peruvian footballer. He plays for Juan Aurich of the Peruvian Segunda División. He used to play in PSV Eindhoven of Netherlands and Al Wakrah of Qatar. He came to prominence in the 2007 South American Under 17 Football Championship, in which he was selected as player of the tournament. He was instrumental in Peru's qualification for the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in South Korea. His first cap for Peru was against Bolivia on 6 February 2008. (Full article...)

• ... that Miguelina Acosta Cárdenas played a key role in the fledgling women's movement in Peru in the early 20th century?
• ... that Peruvian foreign minister Manuel María Gálvez Egúsquiza was arrested by Chilean troops for refusing to sign peace with the cession of territory during the War of the Pacific?
• ... that Óscar Catacora directed Wiñaypacha (Eternity), the first Peruvian film in the Aymara language?
• ... that trade union official Roger Poole spent his honeymoon travelling the Americas in a double-decker bus promoting British products, until the bus sank in a river in Peru?
• ... that Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza was Abimael Guzmán's prosecutor before being elected the first Peruvian judge of the International Criminal Court?
• ... that Naikilah Perusahaan Minang is the oldest operating autobus company in Indonesia?
• ... 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 a Christian revival at Anna Bliss's school in Peru, Massachusetts, led to her being selected to establish a new school in South Africa?

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• ...that in the Andes, llamas (pictured) are used as pack animals, as well as for the production of fiber and meat?
• ...that the Argentinian General José de San Martín proclaimed the independence of Peru on July 28, 1821?
• ...that football player Reimond Manco was selected as the best player of the 2007 South American Under-17 Football Championship?
• ...that as of 2004 access to water in Peru extended to 89% of the urban population but only to 65% of the rural population?
• ...that U.S. citizen Lori Berenson is serving a 20-year prison term in Peru for collaborating with the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement?

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