Portal:Peru/Did you know

These are "Did you know..." items related to Peru which appear on Portal:Peru. Rules for inclusion are as follow:

Articles should have a minimum of 1,500 characters of main body text in size, and preferably longer - no stubs.
Try to pick articles that are original to Wikipedia (not 1911 or other data sources) and interesting to a wide audience.
The "Did you know?" fact must be mentioned in the article and preferably cited with an inline citation since inline citations are used to support specific statements in an article.
When you write the DYK item (or "hook") please make it "hooky", that is, short, punchy, catchy, and likely to draw the readers in to wanting to read the article. Shorter hooks are preferred to longer ones, as long as they don't misstate the article content.
The hook should refer to established facts that are not likely to change, and should be relevant for more than just novelty or newness.

Each DyK entry includes five items.
The title of the article must be in bold
Entries should start with an ellipsis of three full stops (not the ellipsis character …), and end with a question mark.
Use {{*mp}} to get bullet points on the Main Page.

The first item in the list must have an associated image.
The standard image code is <div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;"> [[Image:filename.jpg|100x100px|ALT TAG]]</div>.
The first item "hook" should be modified to include (pictured) in the appropriate place to make the connection to the image.

...that Peru was home to the Norte Chico civilization, the oldest known civilization in the Americas?
...that Macchu Picchu was re-discovered in 1911 by archaeologist Hiram Bingham?
...that Peruvian scientist Pedro Paulet was the first person to build a liquid-fueled rocket engine?
...that Peru was the first Latin American country to win the Miss Universe pageant in 1957 with Gladys Zender?
...that Inka Cola (pictured) has made Peru one of only two countries in the world where Coca-Cola is not the market leader despite being massively sold?

...that Peru was the cradle of the Inca Empire, the largest state in Pre-Columbian America?
...that Peruvian territory is divided successively into regions, provinces and districts?
...that Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's leading novelists and essayists?
...that Peru's varied geography (map pictured) permits a wide variety of outdoor activities, including surfing, sandboarding, 4x4, dune buggy, alpinism, rafting, rappelling, downhill, rally, and hard excursions?