Geothermal resources in Peru

Abstract

Starting from the unforeseen increasing of oil price that took place in 1973, a favorable
attitude at international level toward the examination of an eventual substitution of this fuel
was taken regarding the exploitation of other alternating and Renewable Energetic Sources
as the GEOTHERM, a present resource existing in Peru.
In fact , the Peruvian territory is part of the Pacific Fire Circle, Characterized by the
occurrence of seismic movements, tectonic phenomena, a high concentration of geothermal
caloric flow and the presence of vast volcanic rock deposits, some of them of recent age
that make evident a latent magmatic activity.
More than 400 thermal water manifestations between 40