Peru has launched a weather forecasting platform for Pope Leo’s visit this week, with much of the country under a state of emergency over the threat of intense

Pope Leo XIV travels to Latin America on Nov. 6, 2026, with a packed itinerary that will bring him through Uruguay, Argentina and Peru. It is Leo’s first trip to the region since his elevation to the papacy – and a homecoming for a pope who spent two decades in Peru and holds Peruvian citizenship.

Indigenous leaders in Peru are warning that a government decision to reconsider protections for the Mashco Piro could expose their Amazon rainforest territory to logging.

From the Pacific coast to the Andes and the Amazon, Peru's culinary identity reflects a remarkable diversity of landscapes, ingredients and cultural traditions that travelers can experience throughout the country. The world's culinary spotlight turned to ...

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That said, researchers are now confident these periods of intense violence weren’t the norm—nor were they necessarily linked to climate issues. According to their study recently published in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, such brutal moments were actually pretty rare occurrences in Peru’s Lambayeque Valley.

The National Forest and Wildlife Service of Peru said three people had tried to smuggle the tarantulas, which included a threatened species, into Germany.