What if Perú had kept Bolivia, Ecuador, and the land Chile took?

Right after independence, Perú was undoubtedly the greatest power in former Spanish South America, but they soon lost Bolivia and Ecuador as they saw themselves as separate from Peruvians. What if the Bolivians and Ecuadorians had seen themselves as Peruvian along with those in Perú, and Perú had stayed the power in South America. What would happen afterwards? Would they begin to colonize the Pacific or spend all their resources on rapid industrialization?
 
Considering Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador are all poor countries with vast mountains which difficult communication and infraestructure development, I'd say it this Greater Peru would just be one poor country.
 
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Sorry for reviving a thread, but that's in my interests. (Let's think it didn't lost Acre, the Amazon land from Colombia and Brazil and the Chaco region that Bolivia gave to Paraguay too)
Seeing how Gran Colombia has gone, it would be hard to keep a country like that alive, expecially since Ecuador had a certain autonomy from the Viceroyalties.
So, there are 3 Options:
1. It becomes a second Brazil: It goes in competition with Brazil for influence on South America, and becomes a great power.
2. It is just our Perù: Administration is similiar to OTL Perù, and history is pretty much like it, a normal country in South America without much influence.
3. It falls: Like Gran Colombia or the Perù-Bolivia confederation, after a while it falls dividing in different countries.
The beginning would be hard and probably the center of power would be too far north (Guayaquil, Lima, maybe Quito) while South is poorer (Only La Paz, maybe some of that cities in Chile becomes important?), and communication is hard, but with luck and keeping maybe an Inca-Spanish nationalism alive it could work.
 
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2. It is just our Perù: Administration is similiar to OTL Perù, and history is pretty much like it, a normal country in South America without much influence.

For the most part, this is how I see it becoming. It might be a little richer over all (though GDP per capita would remain quite low). And every now and then there might be a political administration that would try its luck in expanding influence in South America and the Pacific to little effect.
 
Regional differences would remain strong but there would be a lot for the country to endure. Colombia and Brazil perhaps not so much, but the Argentineans, Paraguayans, and Chileans will want some of the richer land in the south. The guano-rich areas of now northern Chile were a source of significant wealth and could fuel a great deal of development. The areas in question might also serve as a truly native state under later circumstances, especially as so much of the (combined) country is of native descent.
 
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