Ayacucho and Cusco are two Peruvian regions located to the south of the country. These regions cover areas of Andean highlands, but their territory is mainly on the Amazon rainforest. Also, in those departments there is the "Valley of the Apurímac, Ene and Mantaro Rivers", also known as the VRAEM, which is a geopolitical extremely poor area and one of the major areas of coca growing in Peru.