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Iquitos
Iquitos
() also known as
Iquitos City
, is the capital city of the
Maynas Province
and
Loreto Region
. The largest
metropolis
in the
Peruvian Amazon
, it is the
sixth 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, surrounded by the
Amazon
,
Nanay
and Itaya rivers. Overall, it constitutes Metropolitan Iquitos, a conurbation of 471.993 inhabitants consisting of four districts:
Iquitos
,
Punchana
,
Belén
, and
San Juan Bautista
.
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