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Punchana
Town in Loreto, Peru

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.

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.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Charles J. Sharp (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.