Photo location game · Americas
Peru landmarks quiz: guess where 9 photos were taken
Every Peru location in the game, 9 in all, with its photo, its fact and its place on the map. The round at the top plays five.
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Five photos from Peru. Tap the map where you think each one was taken.
Tap the map where you think this is
Where they are
9 on the mapAll 9 places
by id
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
Measure Peru's 9 places side to side and you get 1,350 km, Chan Chan to Titicaca. Machu Picchu, Cusco and Rainbow Mountain: three places near the middle, none more than 120 km from the others.
Nazca Lines and Titicaca are rated easy and Cusco and Rainbow Mountain hard; the other five sit in between. Chan Chan is the largest adobe city in the world, capital of the Chimú before the Incas.
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How many Peru photos does the game have?
9. The northernmost is Chan Chan, the southernmost Misti; each round on this page picks five.
What is the hardest Peru round?
The hard ones are Cusco, Rainbow Mountain and Misti and one others; at that level half the points go for every 451 km of miss.
Where is full marks easiest in Peru?
Titicaca, with a 60 km radius. Land anywhere inside it and the round pays 5,000.