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Puno

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Puno (p`nō), city (1993 pop. 97,796), alt. 12,648 ft (3,855 m), capital of Puno dept., SE Peru, on an embayment of Lake Titicaca Titicaca (tētēkä`kä), lake, c.3,200 sq mi (8,290 sq km), 110 mi (177 km) long, and c.
..... Click the link for more information. . It is a commercial, tourist, and transportation center of SE Peru. Wool is exported. Historical landmarks include a cathedral and many native ruins. Puno is also an archaeological center for the exploration of ancient villages of indigenous peoples. A technical institute is located in the city.


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THE ANDEAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a multilateral lending institution, approved a US$150 million lending package for Peru to build highways linking the Cuzco, Puno and Madre de Dios provinces.
The Andean Development Corporations by Latin Trade
The Puno strains shared a substitution in the premembrane protein (R [right arrow] K prM 102); the Pasco strains showed a triplet residue substitution motif in the membrane protein (A [right arrow] T M48, A [right arrow] V M50, and L [right arrow] F M52); and the San Martin/Huanuco strains shared two residue substitutions within the envelope protein (I [right arrow] V E72 and H [right arrow] N E90) (Table 2).
Enzootic transmission of yellow fever virus in Peru. (Research) by Barrett, Alan / Emerging Infectious Diseases
After President John Kennedy appointed me in 1961 to head the United States Food for Peace Program, I was contacted by a remarkable Catholic priest who was stationed with the Maryknoll Fathers in the impoverished Puno area of Peru.
The real cost of hunger by McGovern, George / UN Chronicle
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