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Scouting and Guiding in Peru

Scouting and Guiding associations in Peru

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ7438456 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Scout and Guide movement in Peru is served by

Asociación Nacional de Guías Scouts del Perú, member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

Asociación de Scouts del Perú, member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement

Movimiento Scout Católico del Perú

Asociación Peruana de Escultismo

Asociación Peruana de los Scouts del Mundo, member of the Order of World Scouts

Asociación Peruana de Scouts de Baden Powell

Exploradores Peruanos, member of the Club de Exploradores

Unión de Scouts Tradicionales de América Perú, member of the Order of World Scouts

International Scout Units in Peru

There are also American Boy Scouts in Lima, linked to the Direct Service branch of the Boy Scouts of America, which supports units around the world.

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The public source identifies “Scouting and Guiding in Peru” as scouting and Guiding associations in Peru. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Scouting, Guiding and Peru.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 125-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Scouting, Guiding and Peru providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Scouting and Guiding in Peru” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.