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The Rough Guide to Peru Map (Rough Guide Country/Region Map)

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This is a decent map although there is no insert for Lima nor Cuzco although there is sufficent blue to the west where an insert could have been provided. Very poor thought on their part. The map is made out of the very tough material that is extremely difficult to tear and latitudes and longitudes are provided. Don't laugh! I have had maps that did not provide these for some odd reason. Makes use of a GPS somewhat difficult. The rivers, mountain ranges and other geographic features are all marked but regrettably not indexed. The towns and national parks are indexed. Secondary roads are not shown. That is somewhat of a handicap. Jungle lodges are shown and named.

Peru is a very large country, so there are a couple of tradeoffs. The country is shown half on the front and half on the back. The southern half is on one side and the northern on the other. The scale is 1:1,500,000. There is no milage (kilos actually) reference table between cities. You have to add up the kilometers along the way. A tiresome chore. Again that would have been exellent use of the vast blue space.

This map was almost worthless for walking around in MP and Cusco. It might be helpful for touring by car or bus from town to town in the Sacred Valley, but for pedestrians, it was of no value to us.