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When the Spanish arrived, they divided Peru (very simplistically) into three main regions: the coastal region (11.6% of Peru), that is bounded by the Pacific Ocean; the highlands (28.1% of Peru), that is located on the Andean Heights, and the jungle, that is located on the Amazonian Jungle (Climate of Peru). But Javier Pulgar Vidal (es), a geographer who studied the biogeographic reality of the Peruvian territory for a long time, proposed the creation of eight Natural Regions.〔Pulgar Vidal, Javier: ''Geografía del Perú; Las Ocho Regiones Naturales del Perú''. Edit. Universo S.A., Lima 1979. First Edition (his dissertation of 1940): Las ocho regiones naturales del Perú, ''Boletín del Museo de Historia Natural'' „Javier Prado“, n° especial, Lima, 1941, 17, pp. 145-161.〕〔Benavides Estrada, Juan (1999); ''Geografía del Perú 2do año de Secuandaria''. Lima: Escuela Nueva.〕 In 1941, he presented his thesis "Las Ocho Regiones Naturales del Perú" at the III General Assembly of the Pan-American Institute of Geography and History. These eight Peruvian regions are: * Chala or Coast (subtropical dry and tropical savanna) * Yungas * * Fluvial Yunga * * Loma-Vegetation * Quechua * Suni or Jalca * Puna * Janca * Rupa - Rupa or Highland Jungle * Omagua or Lowland Jungle == Example: Andes 10°S == ::''See also Altitudinal zonation'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Life zones of Peru」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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