Portal:Peru/Did you know/6

Lake Titicaca

...that Lake Titicaca (pictured), located on the border of Bolivia and Peru, is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world?
...that Abimael Guzmán, the founder of the guerrilla organization Shining Path, was sentenced to life imprisonment on counts of terrorism and treason?
...that Andrés de Santa Cruz was successively president of Peru, president of Bolivia and Supreme Protector of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation?
...that Francisco Pizarro led the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire and founded the city of Lima, the modern day capital of Peru?
...that after thirteen rounds of negotiations the United States and Peru signed the Peru–United States Trade Promotion Agreement in April 2006?