Shortly after finishing my second year of medical school I have come to Iquitos, Peru. With a population of nearly half a million, it is the world's largest city inaccessible by road. Iquitos is ...

IQUITOS, Peru -The first thing most visitors notice is the buzzing. Just about every street in this Amazon port city is filled with the noise of motocars. A cross between a motorcycle and a rickshaw, ...

Iquitos, in the Amazon rainforest, is the world's largest city without road access. Fascinating for its geographical location in the Amazon rainforest, Iquitos can only be reached by boat or plane.

Iquitos, still reeling from a dengue fever outbreak and plagued by poverty, relies on air deliveries for medicine, equipment and oxygen In the final hours before Covid-19 claimed her life, Cecilio ...

Iquitos, Peru – Late afternoon is the busiest time in the muddy harbour of Iquitos in the Amazon basin, in the northeast of Peru. Men haul stacks of bottled soda and kilos of rice on their backs, ...

A border town that you can only reach by plane or riverboat, Iquitos is the gateway to Peru's Amazonian wilderness and/or the gateway to the outside world, depending on which way you're traveling.

Iquitos is a city of over 400,000 inhabitants located at the heart of the Peruvian Amazon and accessible only by boat or plane. In recent years, it has become a hotbed of wildlife trafficking in one ...