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comprises a peace footing of over 3,000 men, with a nearly equal number of 

 gendarmes, and a war force of 40,000 of all arras. Before the Chilian war Peru 

 had a really formidable navy, which is now reduced to a few vessels of small 

 tonnage. 



There are eight ecclesiastical divisions (dioceses) : — Chachapoyas, Trujillo,. 



Fig. 137. — Administrative Divisions of Pebu. 

 Scale 1 : 16,000,000. 



West or Greenwich 



250 Miles. 



Huanuco, Lima, Ayacucho, Cuzio, Puno and Arequipa ; and nine judicial 

 circuits: — Cajamarca, Piura, Trujillo, Huaraz, Lima, Ayacucho, Cuzco, Puno and 

 Arequipa. 



The departments, as the administrative divisions are officially called, coincide 

 neither with the judicial circuits nor with the ecclesiastical dioceses. Formerly 



