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Iquitos metropolitan area

The Iquitos Metropolitan Area is the name used to refer to the Peruvian metropolitan area whose principal city is Iquitos, according to Municipality of Iquitos.

Iquitos metropolitan area
Iquitos metropolitan area · Wikimedia Commons
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The Iquitos Metropolitan Area is the name used to refer to the Peruvian metropolitan area whose principal city is Iquitos, according to Municipality of Iquitos. According to population statistics of INEI It is the sixth most populous metropolitan area of Peru in year 2015.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Iquitos metropolitan area

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.

    2.4 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.

    2.3 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.

    2.4 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.

    3 km · park in Peru · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Iquitos metropolitan area

Airports
Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta (IQT), 10 km
Stations
Lieutenant Bergerie airport, 2.8 km
  • Pucallpa → Iquitos metropolitan area
    494 km · quickest by air, 4h 34m · S/240–370
  • Chiclayo → Iquitos metropolitan area
    675 km · quickest by air, 4h 47m · S/270–420
  • Trujillo → Iquitos metropolitan area
    501 km · quickest by air, 4h 49m · S/250–400
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Iquitos metropolitan area

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 Iquitos metropolitan area. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    OllantaytamboPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,065 km
  2. 02
    HuacachinaPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,185 km
  3. 03
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,346 km
  4. 04
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,448 km
  5. 05
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,986 km

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Around it

Next door to Iquitos metropolitan area

Iquitos metropolitan area is 3 km from Iquitos, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.