Upper Peru

English

Etymology

Calque of Spanish Alto Perú.

Proper noun

Upper Peru

  1. (historical) A historical region of colonial South America corresponding to present-day Bolivia.
    • 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 127:
      It was concentrated in two areas—north-central Mexico around Zacatecas and Guanajuato, and the highlands of Upper Peru (modern Bolivia)—though there were significant secondary areas in Honduras and the Peruvian Andes.

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