What is Iquitos?
[[Image:Bandera de Iquitos (II).svg|right|250px]] [[Image:Escudo de Iquitos.svg|right|200px]] '''Iquitos''' is the capital city of the [[Loreto Region]] in northern [[Peru]]. It is on the banks of the [[Amazon River]]. Iquitos is the biggest city in the [[Amazon Rainforest|rain forest]] of Peru, with about 400,000 residents. It is a major [[Harbour|port]] on the Amazon. Excluding towns on islands, Iquitos is thought to be the largest city in the world that can not be reached by road. One can only get to Iquitos by boat, or by airplane. It is very remote, in the middle of the Amazon rainforest. Iquitos was founded in 1747 by Jesuit José Bahamonde. Originally it was the home of the Iquito native tribe. About 100 years ago, Iquitos was a very rich town, because of the rubber industry. Today Iquitos relies mostly on tourism, wood industry and local trade. == Other websites == * http://www.munimaynas.gob.pe/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050404042656/http://www.munimaynas.gob.pe/ |date=2005-04-04 }} (in Spanish) (uses [[Macromedia Flash]]) * [http://www.biopark.org/peru/iquitos.html Iquitos information at biopark.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060125085651/http://www.biopark.org/peru/iquitos.html |date=2006-01-25 }} [[Category:Cities in Peru]] [[Category:Capitals of regions of Peru]] [[Category:Loreto Region]] [[Category:1747 establishments]] [[Category:Establishments in Peru]] [[Category:18th-century establishments in South America]]