Location: Western South America

Capital: Lima

Population: 29,180,899 (July 2008 est.)

Languages: Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages

Religions: Roman Catholic 81%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.4%,
other Christian 0.7%, other 0.6%, unspecified or none 16.3%

Currency (code): Nuevo Sol per US dollar - 3.1731 (2007)

YWAM Minneapolis has sent nine teams to Perú.  The first being in 2005, when YWAM Minneapolis started the Amazon DTS, and has returned to the Amazon four other times with the most recent one being January 2009.  We have partnered with YWAM Iquitos and have worked in the city of Iquitos doing street evangelism, church ministry, and mercy ministry, but also going out into the villages in the Jungle on tributary rivers to the Amazon River.  In 2007 we sent the first of two teams to Ica, and the surrounding region, to help with Earthquake relief after the major earthquake that happened in August of 2007.  YWAM Minneapolis helped raise money for food distribution and reconstruction of houses, along with performing street evangelism, church ministry and children's ministry