Photo location game · Americas
Peru landmarks quiz: guess where 9 photos were taken
9 places in Peru, each with a photo, a short fact and its spot on the map. Play five of them here, then look through the rest below.
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Five places from the 9 below, in random order. Each one scores by the distance from your pin to the real spot.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
9 on the mapAll 9 places
An Inca citadel on a high ridge above the Urubamba valley.
Photo: Martin St-Amant (S23678) / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
An Andean city of Inca walls and colonial churches.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Mineral-striped ridges banded in red, gold, and turquoise.
Photo: Steve FUNG / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Giant desert drawings of animals and lines, best seen from the air.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest adobe city in the world, capital of the Chimú before the Incas.
Photo: Draceane / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The highest navigable lake in the world, with floating reed islands of the Uros.
Photo: W. Bulach / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Amazon rainforest rising to Andean cloud forest, one of Earth's richest habitats.
Photo: Henry Vagrant / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The 5,822-metre volcano that looms over the white city of Arequipa.
Photo: Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A near-perfect ice pyramid once voted the most beautiful mountain in the world.
Photo: Frank R 1981 / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
Titicaca is the furthest east here, 1,350 km from Chan Chan on the western side. Learn where Cusco is and you are close on three photos, because Machu Picchu and Rainbow Mountain are both within 120 km of it.
By rating, the photos are two easy, three medium and four hard. Cusco, Rainbow Mountain, Misti and Alpamayo are rated hard. The easy ones are Nazca Lines and Titicaca. Chan Chan is the largest adobe city in the world, capital of the Chimú before the Incas.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many places in Peru are in the game?
9, from Chan Chan in the north to Misti in the south. A round on this page plays five of them.
What is the hardest photo from Peru?
Cusco, Rainbow Mountain, Misti and Alpamayo are rated hard. A miss of 693 km beyond the radius costs half the score.
Which photo is the easiest to score full points on?
Titicaca. You can be up to 60 km away in any direction and still lose no points.