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Punchana

Punchana is the capital of the Punchana District in the Maynas Province of the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru, in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle.

Punchana
Punchana · Charles J. Sharp
The place

Punchana is the capital of the Punchana District in the Maynas Province of the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru, in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle. It is a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Iquitos, located on the Amazon and the Nanay Rivers. In 2017 it had a population of 78,320.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Punchana

Airports
Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta (IQT), 11 km
  • Pucallpa → Punchana
    554 km · quickest by air, 5h 22m · S/260–390
  • Chiclayo → Punchana
    793 km · quickest by air, 5h 43m · S/310–470
  • Trujillo → Punchana
    799 km · quickest by air, 5h 58m · S/320–490
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Punchana

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 Punchana. 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

    1,066 km
  2. 02
    HuacachinaPE

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    1,186 km
  3. 03
    RurrenabaqueBO

    8 ways of moving, 37 sources

    1,347 km
  4. 04
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,447 km
  5. 05
    Uyuni and the Salar de UyuniBO

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,987 km

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Next door to Punchana

Punchana is 4 km from Iquitos, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.