We boarded our boat in Iquitos and began our journey upriver. 20 miles upriver from Nauta (a town of 15,000 people) the Marañon and Ucayale Rivers merge, and this is where the Amazon River starts....
Loreto is the largest departemento in Peru and covers approx. 29 por cent of the country.
The capital is Iquitos (see travellog) , 106 meter over see level and accessible from the Atlantic See by...
this is the amazonic part of peru definitely a place to visit if you're not used to rainforests! listening at a live forest is quite an amazing experience!