Location:
Iquitos, capital of Loreto, is located in the north east of Perú, on the left border of Amazonas river,106 meters above the sea level (347 feet).

Distances:
From Lima: 1009 kms. (627 miles) by air.
From Pucallpa: 990 kms. (615 miles) by river.

Population:
274,800 inhabitants approximately.

Climate:
Its climate is tropical with high humidity, it has an average temperature of 27 C. It rains from November to March.

Iquitos
Photograph: PromPerú

History:
The Amazonian territories of Iquitos city, were occupied by the jungle tribes of yameos and iquitos until the Spanish arrival.
These territories were part of Iquitos city, which was named the capital of Loreto, on January 05, 1864 during the government of Marshal Ramón Castilla.
The 'fever of rubber' began in 1883, to the end of last century, whose exploitation and trade caused some inhabitants enrichment and the city development and prosperity.
Its port became the most important port to ship exportation raw materials.
Nowadays, Iquitos is the most important city of the Peruvian Amazon, which has the typical characteristics of those times and the tradition of its houses.

Description:
Iquitos is a beautiful city located in the center of the Amazonian jungle, on the left border of Amazon river. It offers many possibilities to have a good time, such as: beaches, shores of its beautiful lagoons, parks and natural resources, sailing in the largest rivers or going into the virgin jungle. It is an ideal place to those who love the ecotourism.

The Amazonas River:

They are located in the desert of San José and Socos, in the province of Nasca, department of Ica.

It is the most important archaeological place in Peru and in the World. It is a place full of mysteries and mysticism. They were designed on the ground of Pampas San José and these immense lines and figures can only be seen completely from a plane. Paul Kosok, their first investigator (1927), considered them 'The biggest book of astronomy in the world'.

The most suitable hypothesis is that those lines would be observatories of astronomical cycles, used by farmers of Nasca Culture to control and know the meteorological agrarian cycles. The German scientific Maria Reiche, who was dedicated to the investigation, has supported this theory and preservation of those mysterious lines that were named 'Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity' by UNESCO.

This group of geometric, trapezoidal and zoomorphic lines and figures have an area of 350 km2 and there are figures that have 1.1 kms. Length and 0.4 kms. Width.