Belen

Worth seeing in and around Belen

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Casa de Fierro

   La Casa de Fierro, located in the city of Iquitos in the jungle of Peru, in front of the major square between Próspero and Putumayo streets, is a large iron residence built during the rubber boom at the end of the nineteenth century. The house was bought by the Bolivian explorer and entrepreneur Antonio Vaca Diez.

   1.3 km · cultural heritage site in Peru · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Cathedral of Iquitos

   The St. John the Baptist Cathedral also called Iquitos Cathedral is the main Catholic church in neo-Gothic style in the city of Iquitos in Peru, with an important value in the historic center of the town.

   1.3 km · cultural heritage site in Peru · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Ex Hotel Palace

   Old Hotel Palace is a modernist building in Iquitos, Loreto, Peru. It was a hotel and was built between 1908 and 1912.

   1.2 km · building in Iquitos, Peru · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Walk of the Amazon Heroes

   The Walk of the Amazon Heroes is a museological boulevard median, only pedestrian, along Avenue Mariscal Cáceres in Iquitos, Loreto, Peru. It is a recent place in the city.

   700 m · park in Peru · Wikipedia

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Getting to Belen

Airports

Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta (IQT), 7 km

Stations

Lieutenant Bergerie airport, 2.2 km

• Pucallpa → Belen

  533 km · quickest by air, 4h 1m · S/220–340
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• Chiclayo → Belen

  804 km · quickest by air, 4h 22m · S/270–410
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• Trujillo → Belen

  802 km · quickest by air, 4h 37m · S/280–440
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No local-transport research exists yet for Belen

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Belen. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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