Iquitos is a city in the Amazon jungle city, no roads or railway is connected with the outside, external transport depend entirely on the air and the Amazon River waterway. The Amazon River City distance is 3700 kilometers, making it the world's distance from the coast as far as "harbour".
In the "rubber", Iquitos rapid expansion, from a small fishing village into a bustling city. The famous architect,Eiffel TowerDesigners fromParisTransport building materials to build a house, iron.
The Amazon River overlord "piranha" sharp teeth, jaw developed, with violent character. But in Iquitos, in the river run amuck piranhas has become the local people after the meal.
As everyone knows.South AmericaThe Amazon River is flow, watershed area of the largest river in the world. The Amazon River, 6400 kilometers in length, of which more than half of the distribution of rivers in Peru province. ComparisonBrazilWithin the broad, flat River, the Amazon River in Peru complex, difficult and strange, deep in the river on the edge of the jungle, unexpectedly also hides a retire the city -- Iquitos.
Iquitos is at the junction of the Amazon River and several big river, surrounded by the river, not a whole piece of land can be connected with the surrounding city, so even in traffic developed today, it still be illogical highway and railway. However fortunately, Toyah Ma Sunhe Fu, small and medium-sized ships sailing upstream from the ocean, more than 3000 kilometers here, this makes Iquitos become the world's distance from the coast as far as "harbour".
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Iquitos is located in the northeast of the tropical rain forest of Peru, with a population of nearly 500000. It is not only the largest city in the Amazon region of Peru, but also in the Amazon region business center. Compared with other city Peru, Iquitos is young, surprising: the Indian fishing village until 1757 when a religious group Jesus will open up, to establish the first terminal -- this is Amazon's first inland port city, Iquitos in 1863 for the first time, until 1980 to become a free port.
Built in Iquitos City, this 100 years, the whole world has changed -- traffic network rapid development of highway, railway, spread to every town on earth to almost frenzied pace, but Iquitos has stubbornly kept their own characteristics: surrounded by dense dense layers of primitive tropical jungle, highway and railway and step back, only by boat or plane to arrive. To be fond of hikingTravelingPeople, perhaps this is a pity, but residents of Iquitos is of the view that: it is this retire geographical environment, which makes the unique local customs perfectly preserved.
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