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 ...

What Iquitos lacks in roads, it makes up for in ports. The Amazon – at this point approximately 1.4 miles (2km) across – is a teeming network of tributaries and traffic with speedboats, cruise liners, ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Iquitos is an important port city of the Amazon and Peru’s largest jungle town. It is located in the Amazon basin at the confluence of the Nanay and Itaya rivers, about 3,700 km upstream from the ...