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city and See also:river See also:port of See also:Peru, and See also:capital of the See also:great inland See also:department of See also:Loreto, on the See also:left See also:bank of the upper See also:Amazon near the mouth of the Rio Nanay, 87 m. below the mouth of the Ucayali and 930 M. from Puerto See also:Bermudez. The See also:geographical position of Iquitos is 3° 44' S., 73° W. Pop. of the city (1906, est.), 6000; of the See also:district (19(36, est.), 12,000. Iquitos stands about 348 ft. above See also:sea-level, on the See also:low wooded See also:banks of the river opposite some islands of the same name, and has a warm but healthful See also:climate (mean See also:annual temperature, about 75° F.). The city consists of two See also:pueblos, the larger of which is occupied by See also:Indians and See also:half-breeds, the descendants of the Iquitos tribe from whom the city takes its name. The opening of the Amazon to See also:navigation, and the subsequent arrival of See also:foreign ocean-going vessels at Iquitos, added immensely to the importance of the city, and made it the commercial entrepSt of eastern Peru. In 1908 three lines of ocean-going steamers were making See also:regular voyages up the Amazon to Iquitos (about 2500 m.). The city has a large import and export See also:trade for an immense region watered by the Maranon, Huallaga, Ucayali and other large Amazonian See also:rivers navigated from Iquitos by' lines of small boats. Iquitos was put in wireless telegraphic communication with Puerto Bermudez on the 8th of See also:July I9o8, whence a See also:land See also:line runs across the See also:Andes to See also:Lima. Besides See also:machine shops and See also:shipbuilding facilities, the important See also:industries are the See also:weaving of hats and hammocks, and the preparation of See also:salt See also:fish; and there is a considerable export of See also:rubber and See also:straw hats. See also:Tobacco is produced in the vicinity and sent to other parts of the See also:Montana region. Iquitos See also:dates officially from 1863, when it had a See also:population of 431, though there had been a See also:white See also:settlement there for more than half a See also:century.

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