IQUITOS

ēkēˈtōs, city (1993 pop. 252,312), capital of Loreto dept., NE Peru, on the Amazon River, c.2,300 mi (3,700 km) from the Amazon's mouth. It is the farthest inland port of any considerable size in the world. With the boom in wild rubber at the beginning of the 20th cent. the city gained prominence, but it declined after the collapse of the market. Today coffee, cotton, timber, balatá, and tagua nuts, as well as rubber, are exported. There is launch service some distance up the Marañón and Ucayali rivers and air service to the highlands, but the Andes Mts. are so formidable a barrier to the transport of most commercial goods that Iquitos has been oriented toward the Atlantic rather than the Pacific. The city was founded in 1863.

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books on: Iquitos  - 164 results

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Tamed Frontiers: Economy, Society, and Civil Rights in Upper Amazonia
Book by Fernando Santos-Granero, Frederica Barclay; Westview Press, 2000
Subjects: Civil Rights--Peru--Loreto (Dept.), Civil Society--Peru--Loreto (Dept.), Loreto (Peru : Dept.)--Economic Conditions, Loreto (Peru : Dept.)--Social Conditions
...Prices of rubber according to quality in Iquitos, 1904-1910 29...4.1 Top-ten merchant houses of Iquitos by origin of owners, 1900-1908...4.2 Tonnage of steamboats belonging to Iquitoss merchant houses by origin of owners...
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TheFive Hundred Millions of the Begum; The Tribulations of a Chinaman in China; The Giant Raft: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
Book by Charles F. Horne, Jules Verne; Vincent Parke, 1911
Subjects: Fiction
...and if Joam Garral found his own house on the raft, Padre Passanha had no cause to regret the poverty-stricken church of Iquitos.--Page 308 . WORKS of JULES VERNE EDITED BY CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. Professor of English, College of the City of...
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People in Nature: Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America
Book by Kirsten M. Silvius, Richard E. Bodmer, Jose M. V. Fragoso; Columbia University Press, 2004
Subjects: Wildlife Management--Central America, Wildlife Management--South America
...Amazonia Perua- na, Plaza Serifin Filomeno, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru LAURENZ PINDER Cerrado...Calle Malec6n, Tarapacg N- 332, Altos, Iquitos, Per(i CECILE RICHARD-HANSEN Office...Abelardo Quinones, Apartado Postal 784, Iquitos, Peru JOHN B. THORBJARNARSON Wildlife...
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La Doctora: An American Doctor in the Amazon
Book by Linnea Smith; University of Minnesota Press, 2002
Subjects: Indians Of South America--Amazon River Region--Medical Care--Anecdotes, Physicians--Amazon River Region--Biography, Smith, Linnea, Tropical Medicine--Amazon River Region--Anecdotes
...while he was in the country. He flew to Iquitos, decided to rent a boat and take tourists...all seemed far behind. The plane to Iquitos, Peru, wasnt leaving till 8:00 P.M., but...scheduling. When we touched down on the Iquitos runway, a round of applause went up...
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The Black Diaries: An Account of Roger Casement's Life and Times, with a Collection of His Diaries and Public Writings
Book by Peter Singleton-Gates, Maurice Girodias; Grove Press, 1959
Subjects: Casement, Roger--Sir--1864-1916
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journal articles on: Iquitos  - 15 results

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The Experience of Time in Mario Vargas Llosa's La Casa Verde
Journal article by Nancy Gray Diaz; Symposium, Vol. 44, 1990
Subjects: Vargas Llosa, Mario--1936---Casa Verde
...in the burning of the first casa verde , (2) Iquitos, (3) the jungle, (4) Fushias island, (5) Santa...bring us fully into his own subjective realm. Iquitos. By contrast with Piura, Iquitos, a town in the interior jungle region of Peru...
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Home Gardens in Amazonian Peru: Diversity and Exchange of Planting Material*
Journal article by Natalie Ban, Oliver T. Coomes; The Geographical Review, Vol. 94, 2004
Subjects: Backyard gardens--Research, Biodiversity--Research, Biological diversity--Research, Home gardening--Research, Planting (Plant culture)--Research
...a network of towns and to the city of Iquitos. Research conducted on resource use in...planting material is purchased in the city of Iquitos, fifteen hours by riverboat from the study villages. Despite the long journey, Iquitos is an important source of planting material...
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A Map of the World
Journal article by W. George Lovell; The Geographical Review, Vol. 98, 2008
Subjects: Air travel--Canada, Air travel--Personal narratives, American Geographical Society--Services
...as we fly over Colombia heading toward Iquitos, Peru, our first port of call. Lying alongside the upper waters of the Amazon River, Iquitos flourished during the rubber boom of the...reserves are currently exploited in the Iquitos area. Established as a Jesuit mission...
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Forbidden Fruit: Infidelity, Affinity and Brideservice among the Urarina of Peruvian Amazonia
Journal article by Bartholomew Dean; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 1, 1995
Subjects: Adultery--Research, Equality--Research, Ethnology--Peru, Peru--Social aspects, Social status--Research, South American native peoples--Peru
...Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana, Iquitos. I should like to acknowledge the financial...F. et al. 1980. La sociedad Urarina. Iquitos: Organismo Regional de Desarrollo de Loreto...Boletin de las misiones Augustinas. (Iquitos) 6, 271-80. Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. 1965...
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Modifying National Malaria Treatment Policies in Peru
Journal article by Trenton K. Ruebush II, Daniel Neyra, César Cabezas; Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 25, 2004
Subjects: Antimalarials
...the peri-urban and nearby rural areas of Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon...first-line regimen in three districts around Iquitos, although this change in policy was not...staff who had taken part in the study in Iquitos trained Ministry of Health staff in the...
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magazine articles on: Iquitos  - 20 results

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The Life and Death-at-Home of an Ordinary Person
Magazine article by Peter Gorman; World and I, Vol. 20, January 2005
Subjects: Conduct of life, Death--Personal narratives, Native South Americans--Personal narratives, Native South Americans--Social aspects, South American native peoples--Personal narratives, South American native peoples--Social aspects
...thats really possible. Lydia was born in Iquitos, Peru, the jungle city at the headwaters...Amazon. There are no roads in or out of Iquitos, only planes--rare in her youth--and boats...ago. At the time, Id been working the Iquitos area of the Amazon a few months a year...
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EVANGELIST FOR NATURE - Once a Missionary, Jose Alvarez Now Searches Amazonia for New Species-And Preaches Salvation for Their Imperiled Habitat
Magazine article by Catherine Elton; International Wildlife, May-June 2001
Subjects: Alvarez, Jose--Conduct of life, Amazon River Region--Protection, Conservationists--Conduct of life, Missionaries--Conduct of life, Rain forests--Protection
...unlikely spot just a stones throw from Iquitos, one of Amazonias biggest cities, and...missionary. During his early years in Iquitos, he pursued this passion more formally...for Research on the Peruvian Amazon in Iquitos, Alvarez has taken neither a vacation...
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FINDING A SPECIES BY Ear
Magazine article by Don Stap; Whole Earth, Fall 2000
Subjects: Birds--Behavior, Flycatchers--Varieties, Ornithologists--Conduct of life, Parker, Ted--Conduct of life, Walton, Carol--Conduct of life
...study site a hundred miles northeast of Iquitos was something of a retreat too. He was...there on the Sucusari River, north of Iquitos, they were alone together for a few weeks...into a boat that would take them back to Iquitos when photographer John Dunning approached...
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Symphonies of Solitude from the North
Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 45, January 1993
Subjects: Artists--Illustrations, photographs, etc., Gould, Glenn--Conduct of life, Northern Canada--Illustrations, photographs, etc.
...into Canada from the top of the globe, one travels due south for some 1,725 miles, the distance from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to Iquitos, Peru, just to reach Great Bear Lake--still pretty far north on most maps. Few Canadians seem to care about the Norths exact...
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Big Water People - among the Amazon's Caboclos
Magazine article by Bob Ruff; World and I, Vol. 18, February 2003
Subjects: Native South Americans--Social aspects, Racially mixed people--Social aspects, South American native peoples--Social aspects
...in food sources. Their remote settlements are scattered along a thousand-mile stretch of the Amazon River from Manaus to Iquitos in Peru. (The mixed-race people found upriver in Peru are called riberi-os. Descended from Spanish- Indian intercourse, they...
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newspaper articles on: Iquitos  - 16 results

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Nobby Wows Shanty Children
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), August 12, 2006
Subjects: Children, Newcastle United
...rang him out of the blue at his parish in Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon in June. He said he would be in Iquitos for an exhibition game and would like...exhibition game to open the new stadium in Iquitos with the Peruvian All-Stars, made up of...
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Cargo of Deadly Piranha from Peru Confiscated
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 26, 2005
...Trio said he was prompted to request for a thorough examination of the shipment after he noticed that they originated from Iquitos, Peru whose fresh water tributaries are known to be rich sources of piranhas. The piranhas and other tropical fish were found...
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Man Who Brought HOPE; from Bo-Ness to the Heart of the Amazon
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 3, 2007
...education of the children of Belen, on the outset skirts of Iquitos. But then, by chance, an American medical team asked if they...communities helps them to stay in the jungle rather than migrate to Iquitos, which is like a Wild West town," explains Willie. "Unemployment...
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Fujimori Easily Wins Third Term in Tainted Election
Newspaper article by Drew Benson; The Washington Times, May 29, 2000
Subjects: Fujimori, Alberto, Toledo, Alejandro
...presidential palace but were driven back by police with tear gas. Radio reports said several people were wounded in the city of Iquitos when police opened fire to disperse thousands of people who took to the streets to protest the election result. With 27 percent...
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Hooked on Piranha Cruising; RIVERBOAT: The Thatchroofed Delfin Explores the Amazon. Left: Caroline Landed Piranha, despite the Rain
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 30, 2008
Subjects: Cruise lines
...Kings (020 7873 5000, www.coxandkings.co.uk). Starting in Iquitos, it included two nights in Lima and cost pounds sterling2,775...navigating the Amazon from its mouth at Belem in Brazil upstream to Iquitos next year. The trip features onboard lectures and sails for...
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encyclopedia articles on: Iquitos  - 4 results

 
 
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Iquitos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
IQUITOS eke tos, city (1993 pop. 252,312), capital of Loreto dept., NE Peru, on the Amazon River, c.2,300 mi (3,700 km) from...service to the highlands, but the Andes Mts. are so formidable a barrier to the transport of most commercial goods that Iquitos has been oriented toward the Atlantic rather than the Pacific. The city was founded in 1863. ____________________ Copyright...
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Ucayali
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mountain and jungle wilderness to the Maranon River, SW of Iquitos. It is a main headstream of the Amazon River; the headwaters...by small craft. It is an important communications link for Iquitos . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Amazon , River, Peru and Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...610 km) upstream, is only c.100 ft (30 m) higher than Belem and is an ocean port; ships with a draft of 14 ft (4 m) can reach Iquitos, Peru, c.2,300 mi (3,700 km) from the sea. Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia have international shipping rights on the Amazon. In...
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Peru , Country, South America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The region is generally inaccessible and sparsely inhabited in the north; it is used for the illegal cultivation of coca. Iquitos is the chief city of the eastern region. People About 45% of Perus population is indigenous, while mestizos make up about...


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