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(updated 10/6/24)
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Peru Subdivisions
Peru Features both black and white car
A wide variety of landscapes are found in peru
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Subdivisions
Regions (25)
Provinces (196)
Districts (1,838)
Subdivisions
Regions are worth memorizing, many of them are named after their capital city. There are only 25 of them so It takes like 20 minutes to memorize. They show up on a map on the border between 2 districts if you zoom in enough.
Regions will show up on many signs.
Subdivisions
Provinces are probably not worth memorizing, as there are 196 of them. They frequently show up written on walls advertising politicians. They will be hard to memorize but they could pay off if you find one. https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Provinces_of_Peru
Subdivisions
Districts are not worth memorizing. There are almost 2,000 of them so it will be terrible to memorize them anyways.
Cars
Black and white car is most common, but there can be a variety of cars, gen 4, invisible, ect.
NOTE: Peru got alot of 2024, and some of this car meta is likely outdated
Region by region guide
I linked ai generated maps for each region, it is recommended after reading a bit about it to try the map a few times to get a feel for the region. Also I recommend no move, but it is your choice.
Starting out with the northern regions
Most northern state of peru, can be recognised by distinct vegetation. Mostly white car, but black car can be found in northern regions along with the cities, there is also a coastal car that shows up sometimes, Coastal regions can be hard to recognise, but the ocean is North or Northwest which is in very few other places. For some reason, there is frequently trash by the side of the road. The vegetation is pretty much unique to this province. Tumbes also has this disgusting orange colored soil. That is also common in some places in
Puira.
Common Tumbes Vegetation
Coastal car
Just like Tumbres, It also has a lot of coast that is facing NW. Usually the vegetation is pretty dry, having a lot of shrubs. Some say it looks like botswana. Piura has a wide variety of cars spread out. On eastern side, there is some coverage that is way more green and has a mountainous landscape. Has a similar type of vegetation to tumbes in some parts. Probably the best tip is the dry mesquite trees that are commonly found in Puira. Once you get the vibe, Puira is a very gettable province. Also road angle is very helpful in Puira, so lining up roads is very beneficial to getting a good score.
Piura - a deeper dive
1N (SE segment) - Very straight and distinct road. Road angle very helpful, small shrubs lining road, sandy.
4 - Very straight and distinct road. Very white sand and small shrubs.
2s- C
Pro Tip! - Mesquite Tree
While this plant can be found south, it is usually a good indicator for either Tumbes, Puira, or Lambayeque. Remember to look for other clues!
As you can see from the map, loreto only has coverage in 2 places. The northern coverage almost looks like brazil. The easiest way to tell the roads apart is road quality. Roads in the south have much fresher painted yellow double lines, compared to in the north you will never see fresh road lines. The south also usually has double yellow, while the north frequently has single yellow. You will see these “jungle” type hut things (more frequently in the north, but found on both roads) which definitely give the Loreto type vibe. If you are trying to region guess the north road, white car is in the south of the road, and black car is north (coverage near iquitos excluded, it has mixed).
Northern road
landscape
Southern road landscape
Common Iquitos (capital of loreto) Utility pole
Usually, if you know which road it is, you can easily line up road angle for easy 5ks
Pro Tip!
These types of trees are very common in loreto!
Coverage is pretty limited, existing only in the south. Amazonas has a lot of interesting looking hills that can be recognised by the vegetation on them. Amazonas has mostly generation 4 coverage with either black or red car, but some gen 3 white and black car exists. Possible to region guess, took me like 10 minutes to learn each road, prob not worth. You can if you want.
Lambayeque has a fair amount of coverage, ranging from the bone dry road in the south/west to mountain roads in the north/east.
The dry parts in the west, they small dead shrubs on the ground, gen 4 coverage, a lot of wooden utility poles to the side of the road. It also features a very flat landscape unlike the other parts of Lambayeque. One thing I found helpful about the southern parts is it is usually very flat, with hills in the distance, as well as agriculture fields besides the road, this isn’t 100% accurate but usually a good pointer The northern parts also SOMETIMES have this same sort of flat roads with hills feel, but not always.
A pretty good amount of coverage, concentrated around Cajamarca. The coverage is very different in different parts, but usually are roads going through mountains. Try to look at the pictures I provided and get an idea of what these mountains typically look like. Unsurprisingly, the north mountains look similar to amazonas mountains.
2022 brake light visible: north/near of Cajamarca city
2022 brake light invisible: south/near of Cajamarca city
La libertad features a wide variety of landscapes, from rolling yellow grass hills to jagged dry hills. The border features a river running alongside the road. Roads will often cut though mountains. A pretty good clue for La Libertad is fields of agriculture with mountains. Sugarcane is very common
Limited coverage, Most coverage centers around tarapoto. All north coverage will have a black shiny car, while the south road will have a white car. Most areas have a flat road, with mountains with lots of vegetation on them, and frequently thin branched trees (look at images)
Congratulations! You have completed the “Northern” part of this guide
It is recommended to go and practice these skills, play the map, and go back and forth between the guide, trying to learn what each region looks like.
After about 30 minutes of practice, I could identify the state with 85% accuracy and score and average of 15k points on the map.
Quick northern peru map I made
https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/654f1f9bb17a25ecdfeb91f1
https://www.geoguessr.com/maps/65611354051537a1a7585ef3/play (landscape, less urban coverage)
Very similar to some of the other northern provinces (la libertad, cajamarca, ect). Usually, its either sandy/dirty with some small hills near by, or roads through the mountains. The mountains are distinguishable from cajamarca/libertad sometimes but pretty difficult, just practice a lot.
Ancash Vs La Libertad Vs Cajamarca
Limited Coverage, the highways going through the capital, and a road out east. The far east road is distinguishable because it has almost 100% gen 4 red or other car. Also some parts of the road have this weird cable thing on the side of the car. The road coming out of San Martin has white car, and has dense vegetation. The areas near Ancash look very similar to what ancash looks like.
Very limited coverage, just play the map, and learn what it looks like. The circled road always has this red/brown dirt with black car, so if you think it could be there, use road angle to verify. Overall, it usually has white/red gen 4, lots of vegetation, and palm trees. Pucallpa is the biggest city. You can usually spot palm trees, and lots tuk tuks with blue/red roofs. The roofs of the houses are usually rusty tin. Overall, pretty easy province, I got 15k on the map first try.
Most coverage is centered around Cerro de Pasco. Cerro de Pasco is surrounded by yellow, rocky mountains as shown in the pictures. The eastern road has dense vegetation very close to the road, and gen 4 usually.
This section contains both Lima and Callao, most of the coverage is just in the city, but there are a few roads leading out of the city. A Lot of places in lima have these street signs that look like the ones in the pictures. Since lima is the Capital of peru, and is the biggest city, if you see a really populated city, you are most likely in lima.
Also for some reason, a lot of the
Coverage outside of the city is
Kinda hazy, so this might be
helpful.
Quite the region here, It has a ton of different landscapes that look very similar to other places on opposite sides of the country. Up north, there is agriculture with surrounding hills, South is dry hills, with dirt roads going between them. East is a variety of different mountainous landscapes, from very vegetative roads to shrubby mountains. Some locations have fog, but the tip isn’t that reliable. Another possible helpful tip is, looking at the coverage, most roads are generally going ne/, so if you are considering it, check the road angle to possibly sway your answer.
Starting off with Huancayo, It is a massive city like lima, and you can usually see mountains surrounding the city. You can look at the image of the city from far away to see the mountains. The eastern coverage can look similar to the jungle road that goes through huanuco/pasco, but luckily road angle is different. The center of the region is rolling yellow grass hills
Ah yes, the “Acre but in peru” province. The road that is close to acre looks almost exactly like it. The soil is red(ish) in some parts. There is grassy hills besides the road, and past the grass is palm or other types of trees. A very distinct look that you can easily remember. Further south on the road, it looks less like acre (still shares some similarities). The city “Puerto Maldonado” has a river on either side of it, and can be recognized by lots of bikes and colorful tuk tuks, and in some places of town, a large tower thing. The side roads are unpaved dirt in the city.
Cusco, home of the world famous Machu Picchu. I will break Cusco into 2 sections, first, landscape, then the city + trekkers and such. The eastern road can be recognized by ferns that grow by the side of the road (found elsewhere). Sometime interesting I noticed near, and south of Cusco city, is Purplish dirt. The south of the province has the common yellowish grass with hills. Near cusco a mountainous landscape. To practice, I recommend playing the map “Cajamarca Vs Cusco” If you are struggling with the map, I wrote some tips on the next slide, if you aren't, then you can move on to the city section.
Cajamarca Vs Cusco general tips:
This challenge becomes easy just using a few tips and vibes, ive gotten 25 streaks easily (to be ended by a random urban rounds 🤢🤮)
Starting off, Cusco has some unique landscapes that you should never miss.
Cajamarca also has things not found in Cusco
Just practice a bunch and it will become easy
Cajamarca
Cusco
Cusco (City and others)
Cusco is the capital of the region. It is a city surrounded by sparse mountains, and frequently has houses on those mountains. Cusco has mostly multi-story brick buildings. The stoplights in Cusco are sideways, and usually actually say Cusco on them. There is a airport runway down pretty much the center of town, surrounded by a brick wall.
If you happen to get coverage on railroad, that means you are in machu picchu
This region has pretty much 2 different biomes, either rocky dry with hills (south) or roads through somewhat green mountains (north). With the green mountains, there are usually thin trees with somewhat white branches lining the road, and low vegetation below them. The city is decently flat, but sometimes you can catch glimpses of mountains around it. Also kinda a silly meta that may or may not be helpful, Ayacucho city has these sidewalks on the side of the road that are tiled and all about 3-4 feet wide. Probably not a 100% helpful meta but maybe can you help if you need a 50/50 or help you think of ayacucho if you aren't sure.
Starting off with the capital city of the province (Huancavelica), It is very easy to recognize because of the mountains you can see from pretty much anywhere in the city, as well as the disaster the electricity pole’s wires are, if you look up, you can see a bunch of wires in every way. Also there is a river running through the middle of the city. The region has a lot of of mountains with roads on the side of them, as well as the rocky shrubby dry areas. The mountains near the capital sometimes have pink/white soil but not always.
Pretty small region, all the coverage is in the eastern half. The city of Andahuaylas can be recognized because it is long and thin, with mountains on either side. The mountains have a lot of trees, and there is green grass everywhere. Abancay (the capital) also has similar mountains surrounding the city, but they don’t have nearly as many trees. Most of the landscape is the typically mountain landscape. Then
Ica city is another really big city in peru, it can be recognized by the street signs sometimes found, and the semi-dryness. Ica is very sandy, but it also has patches of green frequently found, so if it looks like desert with random green shrubs, that might be a good indication of ica region. Northern Ica sometimes has cacti.
As you get further south, you rarely see any green, and just a yellowish white sandy dry region with some small hills.
In the east, you get flat areas with brown sand/dirt. In the central area, you get mountains with green vegetation with trees (see images), and in the south, you get this flat orange dirt area. Arequipa is the 2nd biggest city in peru (behind lima). It is surrounded by dry mountains, and is somewhat hilly in the city. There is the Arequipa taxi which is very commonly found in the city, so keep an eye out for it. They have a sign on top of them that say “turismo arequipa” or something else.
The soil here basically ranges from pink to orange to brown, it can be hilly in the north, but the south sends to be at least somewhat flat. Very very dry region in some places, but there is some vegetation north in the mountains sometimes. Very “southern” type of feel.
Tacna
The city kinda feels like la paz, bolivia a bit, it just feels dusty/sandy kinda. Talca is mostly dry and sandy, sometimes it has green mountains in the north of the province.
Coming Soon
Southern Soil Colors
Cool/tricky locations
Tuk Tuks + taxis
Iquitos
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