Peru lies between the American plate and which plate?

1. Peru lies between the American plate and the Pacific plate. It is a country in the west of South America, bordering Ecuador and Colombia in the north, Brazil and Bolivia in the east, Chile in the south and the Pacific Ocean in the west.

2. Peru is one of the centers of ancient Indian civilization in American continent. Contemporary Peru is a presidential parliamentary democracy, and the country is divided into 25 regions. The Andes runs through the north and south of the country, with arid plains in the western coastal areas and tropical rainforests in the eastern Amazon basin. The economy mainly depends on agriculture, fisheries, mining and manufacturing.

3. Peru is a multi-ethnic country, which is made up of different ethnic groups. Indians have lived in Peru for thousands of years. During the colonial rule, Spaniards and Africans flooded in and merged with the aborigines. After independence, European immigrants from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain gradually settled down.