Peruvian Amazon

The Peruvian Amazon region of includes the departments of Loreto, Ucayali, Amazonas, , and San Martin. This is a vast, sparsely populated jungle region in the of northeastern .
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is a city of 380,000 people in the Amazonas region of .

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is a city in the Peruvian Amazon on the banks…

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is a city located in the Loreto Region of Peru.

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, the capital of the province of the same name, is in the Junín Region of the Peruvian Amazon.

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is the capital of the Padre Abad province in the Ucayali region of .

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is a town in the Ucayali Region of .

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District is one of thirteen districts of the Maynas Province in .

is a district in southern Atalaya Province in .

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is a town in the Loreto Region…

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Santa Rosa is a small settlement on an island in Amazonian Peru.

is the capital of the Río Tambo district in the Peruvian Amazon.

Peruvian Amazon

  • Type: region
  • Description: natural and historic Peruvian region
  • Also known as: “Amazona Peruo”, “Amazonia de peru”, “Amazonia del peru”, “Amazonia Peruana”, “Amazonía Peruana”, “Peruvian Amazonia”, “Selva”, “Selva amazonica de Peru”, “Selva amazónica de Peru”, “Selva amazonica del Peru”, “Selva amazonica del Perú”, “Selva amazónica del Peru”, “Selva amazónica del Perú”, “Selva amazonica peruana”, “Selva amazónica peruana”, “Selva de peru”, “Selva del peru”, “Selva peru”, and “秘魯亞馬遜”
  • Location: ,
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Latitude of center
-7° or 7° south
Longitude of center
-74° or 74° west
Wiki­data ID
Q3846812
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Peruvian Amazon” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Amazònia del Perú”
  • Chinese: “秘魯亞馬遜地區”
  • Chinese: “西亚马逊”
  • Esperanto: “Perua Amazonio”
  • French: “Amazone”
  • French: “Amazonie péruvienne”
  • Galician: “Amazonía do Perú”
  • German: “Amazonasbecken Peru”
  • German: “Amazonasbecken”
  • Hausa: “Dajin na Peru”
  • Hebrew: “החלק הפרואני של יער האמזונאס”
  • Italian: “Amazzonia peruviana”
  • Persian: “آمازون پرو”
  • Portuguese: “Amazônia peruana”
  • Portuguese: “Amazônia Peruana”
  • Portuguese: “Amazônia”
  • Russian: “перуанская Амазония”
  • Spanish: “Amazonía del Perú”
  • Swedish: “Peruanska amazonas”

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