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From Lima, the capital of Peru, to Iquitos, the
starting point of our Amazon adventure. It is a
city of half a million inhabitants, that can
only be reached from the outside by air or
riverboat. This is in the top right-hand corner
of Peru. Iquitos is 4,000 km (2,500 miles)
upstream from the mouth of the Amazon and 2,000
km (1,250 miles) further up from Manaus, the
well known Brazilian city on this largest river
in the world. This means that there are another
1,500 km (940 miles) upstream to the sources of
the main river in the Andes mountains. If you
look at the map of South America, basically the
Amazon catchment area starts from about 150 to
200 kms (95 to 125 miles) in from the left-hand
side, along the Pacific Ocean. So it really
occupies almost all of the top wider section of
the continent....
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