The word "Peruvian" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone or something of, from, or related to Peru. For example: "The Peruvian woman danced traditional folkloric dances from the Andes to the rhythms of her charango."
And within the past few weeks, Peruvian security forces have launched an unprecedented operation to destroy the unlawful gold-mining dredgers that are now killing off river habitats by pumping up river-silt.
A subsequent letter from the Peruvian government "recognised the situation of the peoples living in isolation and/or initial contact" and promised, for the first time, that five new reserves for indigenous communities were "in the pipeline".
Jorge Pérez Rubio, president of the regional indigenous organisation, ORPIO, to which the Matsés community on the Peruvian side is affiliated, told the meeting he "welcomed" their decision and said, "We're going to avoid the kind of disaster that has happened elsewhere".
"The Matsés have lived for a long time in the River Yaquerana region – long before the border was imposed by the Brazilian and Peruvian governments," OGM stated to the Ministry.
Lot 135 also includes areas the Matsés consider their land and, in addition, is superimposed over a proposed reserve for indigenous people living in what Peruvian law, indigenous organisations and anthropologists call "isolation" or "voluntary isolation" (IPVI).
It is estimated by the UN that coca plantations in the area of the Peruvian Amazon increased by roughly 25% between 2003 and 2008.
The Amazon river, one of the last great wilderness adventures, can now be cruised in relative comfort aboard posh ships that depart from the Peruvian frontier town of Iquitos.
He recently consulted a Peruvian shaman on the island, who performed a ceremony in which Smyth took ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic concoction believed to clear the mind.
According to Peruvian NGO CEDIA, Lot 137 includes 49% of the Matsés's titled community land in Peru and 36% of a supposedly "protected natural area" called the Matsés National Reserve, which they consider their territory too.
An indigenous people whose territories are divided by the Brazil-Peru border in the remote Amazon say they are vehemently opposed to oil exploration on the Peruvian side and are prepared to fight companies in order to keep them out.
"We maintain the position of not permitting the oil company to enter," Cesar Nacua Uakui, from a village called Estirón on the Peruvian side, told the meeting.
