When the Spanish arrived, they divided Peru (because of political reasons ) in three main regions: the Coastal region, that is bounded by the Pacific Ocean; the Highlands, that is located on the Andean Heights, and the Jungle, that is located on the Amazonian Jungle. But Javier Pulgar Vidal, a geographer who studied the biogeographic reality of the Peruvian territory for a long time, proposed the creation of eight Natural Regions. In 1941, the III General Assembly of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History approved this motion . These eight Peruvian regions are:
- Chala or Coast (subtropical dry and tropical savanna)
- Yunga
- Quechua
- Suni or Jalca
- Puna
- Janca
- Rupa - Rupa or High Jungle
- Omagua or Low Jungle
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