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 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.
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Getting to Punchana
- Airports
- Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta (IQT), 11 km
- Pucallpa → Punchana554 km · quickest by air, 5h 22m · S/260–390
- Chiclayo → Punchana793 km · quickest by air, 5h 43m · S/310–470
- Trujillo → Punchana799 km · quickest by air, 5h 58m · S/320–490
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
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If you know how people move in Punchana – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Punchana
Punchana is 4 km from Iquitos, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.