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Page 177
... Peru and Ecuador that ended in 1942 , the year it was created a department . Pop . ( 1972 prelim . ) 75,399 . area and population table 14 : 131 Tumbes , also spelled TUMBEZ , capital , Tumbes department and province , northwest- ern Peru ...
... Peru and Ecuador that ended in 1942 , the year it was created a department . Pop . ( 1972 prelim . ) 75,399 . area and population table 14 : 131 Tumbes , also spelled TUMBEZ , capital , Tumbes department and province , northwest- ern Peru ...
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... Peru , he absorbed both the traditions of the Incas and the stories told by his father's Spanish associates . He learned Spanish and Latin and was an eyewit- ness of the civil wars then raging in Peru , which he later recorded in his ...
... Peru , he absorbed both the traditions of the Incas and the stories told by his father's Spanish associates . He learned Spanish and Latin and was an eyewit- ness of the civil wars then raging in Peru , which he later recorded in his ...
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... Peru ) , president of Peru from 1968. A major general in the army , Velasco came to power by means of a coup . His government has sought to combine public and private ownership of the economy , and to limit U.S. economic influence in Peru ...
... Peru ) , president of Peru from 1968. A major general in the army , Velasco came to power by means of a coup . His government has sought to combine public and private ownership of the economy , and to limit U.S. economic influence in Peru ...
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