Iquitos

I·qui·tos

(ĭ-kē′tōs, ē-kē′-)

A city of northeast Peru on the Amazon River northeast of Lima.

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Iquitos

(Spanish iˈkitɔs)

(Placename) an inland port in NE Peru, on the Amazon 3703 km (2300 miles) from the Atlantic: head of navigation for large steamers. Pop: 389 000 (2005 est)

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I•qui•tos

(iˈki tɔs)

n.

a city in NE Peru, on the upper Amazon. 274,759.

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Paul McAuley, 71, whose burned body was found April 2 in a home he founded for indigenous students in Iquitos, in the northeastern Amazonian region.

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The harrowing scenes were recorded by an onlooker outside the Apoyos hospital in the city of Iquitos in the Maynas province of Peru.

Grieving dad on run with dead baby daughter's body after snatching her from morgue; Devastated Roy Perez, 40, couldn't stand the thought of his two-year-old daughter's body being cut up during autopsy

Se presenta en el siguiente documento el caso de reasentamiento poblacional preventivo mas emblematico del Peru: la Nueva Ciudad de Belen--NCB en Iquitos, Loreto.

MEDIOS DE VIDA, TECNOLOGIAS APROPIADAS Y SU INTEGRACION CON LOS PLANES DE DESARROLLO URBANO: EL CASO DE LA NUEVA CIUDAD DE BELEN, LORETO, PERU

El terreno paso poco despues a propiedad de Eduardo Fuller, quien instalo el primer cine comercial en Iquitos, con equipo filmico adquirido en Francia.

Prolegomenos para una interpretacion del cortometraje documental Buscando el azul

Ramal is a specialist in infectious and tropical disease medicine at Loreto Regional Hospital, Iquitos, Peru.

Diffuse Multibacillary Leprosy of Lucio and Latapi with Lucio's Phenomenon, Peru

River towns, with 19th century architecture from rubber-boom days, include Brazil's Manaus and Belem and Peru's Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado.

Colombian festival in full swing at PNCA

El Centro de Investigaciones Allpahuayo (CIA) esta ubicada aproximadamente a 26 km de la ciudad de Iquitos, en el distrito de San Juan Bautista, provincia de Maynas, departamento de Loreto (3[grados]38'01.99"S; 73[grados]25'08.86"W), su clima presenta temperatura media anual mayores a 24 [grados]C y precipitaciones promedio anuales mayores a 2400 mm, distribuidas sin una estacion seca definida; la estacion mas lluviosa se presenta de noviembre a mayo.

Aspectos biologicos de Archaeoprepona demophon muson (Fruhstorfer, 1905) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) en la Amazonia peruana

James Contos, a US kayaking guide whosisted her in the early part of her Amazon pedition, said he received news on August as ex 28 that she had been killed near Iquitos in Peru.