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Theme Week Peru – Iquitos, capital of the Peruvian Amazon

21 April 2021 | Author/Destination: South America / Südamerika | Rubric: General Reading Time: 9 minutes

Iquitos, also known as City of Iquitos, is the capital city of Peru‘s Maynas Province and Loreto Region. The largest metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon, east of the Andes, it is the ninth-most populous city of Peru. It is known as the “capital of the Peruvian Amazon”. The city is located in the Great Plains of the Amazon Basin, fed by the Amazon, Nanay, and Itaya rivers. Overall, it constitutes the Iquitos metropolitan area, a conurbation of 471,993 inhabitants consisting of four districts: Iquitos, Punchana, Belén, and San Juan Bautista. It is the largest city in the world that cannot be reached by road – it is accessible only by river and air. read more…