Iquitos, the Chaotic Entrance to the Peruvian Amazon

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The Peruvian Amazon occupies 59 percent of the country’s territory and is Iquitos its most representative city. Nestled between the Nanay and Itaya rivers, Iquitos was the capital of the Amazon during the boom of the cauchera industry from 1870, when the indigenous were exploited. From that legacy some old mansions and palaces of rubber magnates remain in the city, some became shops and others have remained standing as an iron house, the House o…