Peruvian Amazon
The Peruvian Amazon region of Peru includes the departments of Loreto, Ucayali, Amazonas, Madre de Dios, Huanuco and San Martin. This is a vast, sparsely populated jungle region in the Amazon basin of northeastern Peru.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Altiplano, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Iquitos and Pucallpa.
Iquitos
Iquitos is a city of 380,000 people in the Amazonas region of Peru. For travellers, Iquitos offers a vast selection of activities not found elsewhere in Peru, such as Amazon boat rides and great wildlife viewing.
Pucallpa
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Pucallpa is a city in the Peruvian Amazon on the banks of the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon River. It's an excellent base for visits to Lake Yarinacocha.
Yurimaguas
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Yurimaguas is a city located in the Loreto Region of Peru. It serves as the capital of the Alto Amazonas Province and is situated in the northeastern part of the country.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Satipo and Aguaytía.
Satipo
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Satipo, the capital of the province of the same name, is in the Junín Region of the Peruvian Amazon.
Aguaytía
Aguaytía is the capital of the Padre Abad province in the Ucayali region of Peru. It is a town in the Peruvian Amazon between the cities of Tingo María and Pucallpa.Atalaya
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Atalaya is a town in the Ucayali Region of Peru. It is the capital of the Atalaya Province and the Raymondi District. It is located where the Tambo and Urubamba Rivers converge to form the Ucayali River.
Sepahua
Sepahua is a district in southern Atalaya Province in Peru. It is bordered by the Junín Region on the west, the district of Raymondi on the north, the Echarate District on the east, and national land on the south.Caballococha
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Caballococha is a town in the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru, located on the Amazon River and right across the river from Colombia. It is the capital of both Mariscal Ramón Castilla Province and Ramón Castilla District.
Santa Rosa Island
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Santa Rosa is a small settlement on an island in Amazonian Peru. It is the Peruvian contribution to the triple border that includes Tabatinga in Brazil and Leticia in Colombia, both of which are more substantial settlements.
Puerto Ocopa
Puerto Ocopa is the capital of the Río Tambo district in the Peruvian Amazon.Peruvian Amazon
- Type: geographical feature
- Description: natural and historic Peruvian region
- Also known as: “Peruvian Amazonia”
- Location: Peru, South America
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Latitude of center
-7° or 7° southLongitude of center
-74° or 74° westWikidata 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”
- Chinese: “秘魯亞馬遜地區”
- Chinese: “西亚马逊”
- Esperanto: “Amazona Peruo”
- Esperanto: “Perua Amazonio”
- French: “Amazone”
- French: “Amazonie péruvienne”
- Galician: “Amazonía do Perú”
- German: “Amazonasbecken Peru”
- German: “Amazonasbecken”
- Hebrew: “החלק הפרואני של יער האמזונאס”
- Italian: “Amazzonia peruviana”
- Portuguese: “Amazônia peruana”
- Portuguese: “Amazônia Peruana”
- Portuguese: “Amazônia”
- Spanish: “Amazonia de peru”
- Spanish: “Amazonia del peru”
- Spanish: “Amazonía del Perú”
- Spanish: “Amazonia Peruana”
- Spanish: “Amazonía Peruana”
- Spanish: “Selva amazonica de Peru”
- Spanish: “Selva amazónica de Peru”
- Spanish: “Selva amazonica del Peru”
- Spanish: “Selva amazonica del Perú”
- Spanish: “Selva amazónica del Peru”
- Spanish: “Selva amazónica del Perú”
- Spanish: “Selva amazonica peruana”
- Spanish: “Selva amazónica peruana”
- Spanish: “Selva de peru”
- Spanish: “Selva del peru”
- Spanish: “Selva peru”
- Spanish: “Selva”
- Swedish: “Peruanska amazonas”
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