Peru: the microchip you keep hearing about isn't for entry
The most common mix-up on this route: the microchip and rabies titer test SENASA mentions apply to pets leaving Peru for a country that requires them — not to pets entering.
To enter Peru: a certificate, vaccines, deworming — no microchip
Peru's SENASA (Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria — a different agency from its Argentine namesake) requires, for a dog or cat entering the country, an original export health certificate issued by the official authority of the departure country, listing current vaccinations: for dogs, canine parvovirus, distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis and rabies; for cats, feline panleukopenia and rabies.
The rabies vaccine is mandatory for both species from three months of age. Internal and external deworming must also have been done within thirty days before travel. No microchip requirement appears among these entry requirements.
The microchip and titer test do appear on SENASA's site — but for exit
This is the most common confusion on this route: the ISO 11784/11785 microchip and the rabies antibody titer test do appear in SENASA's documentation, but under the section covering pets leaving Peru, where they're required "according to the destination country's requirements" — SENASA's own example is the EU and Japan.
In practice: a pet entering Peru needs neither a microchip nor a titer test for Peru itself. But if that same pet later travels onward to the EU or an equivalent country, both requirements come back into play — not because Peru imposes them, but because the next destination does.
Fixed fees, published in soles
SENASA publishes exact amounts rather than pointing to a general fee schedule: S/98.60 for a pet entering, S/97.20 for one leaving, payable into SENASA's bank account. That's a rare exception, across this series of articles, to the usual rule that no fee gets stated without direct confirmation — here, the figure is published as-is by the authority itself.
The export certificate from Peru must be requested seventy-two hours in advance — a lead time worth building into the schedule if the departure is from Peru rather than into it.
Where to apply: sixteen regions covered, not just Lima
SENASA processes these applications in sixteen regions of the country — Ancash, Apurímac, Arequipa, Cajamarca, Cusco, Ica, La Libertad, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Moquegua, Piura, Puno, San Martín, Tacna, Tumbes and Ucayali — not only in the capital, which avoids an extra trip to Lima for a departure from elsewhere in the country.