Maps provided by Trek Peru, the complete guide to travel in Peru

Maps in the Trek!Peru guide

The guide offers around 50 maps. Some of these are no more than sketches - to archaeological sites, for example - whilst others are much more extensive. Each route guide has at least one road map, showing general topography. There are a number of stand-alone maps which cover the entire country., Some of these are interactive, in the sense that if you click on an area, you are taken to a text which gives you relevant information - about ecology, for example, or mountain ranges. Route descriptions may be selected off several maps of this sort. There is a large landsat map which covers the entire country, across which you can scroll.

We offer several highly detailed road maps of popular destinations, such as Cusco. We do not, however, try to equal paper maps, in part because the screen cannot yet match print for its definition and detail, in part through issues of portability.

The Amazonian river system near Iquitos in Peru.

However, there are a number of excellent route maps that can be bought in virtually any map shop, or on arrival in Lima. The Peruvian government also publishes detailed provincial maps, which must be bought, directly or by post, from the Instituto Geográfico in Lima. Please click here for their web site, which gives full contact details.

The graphic below shows the Peruvian Andes, from Ecuador on the left to Chile on the right, from a vantage point high above the Pacific ocean. The vertical scale is very greatly exaggerated. The jungle area - including the Amazon river system shown in the graphic above - runs to the rear of the image, where it passes chiefly into Brazil.

The Andes of Peru, seen from the Pacific with a exaggerated vertical scale.

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