The Iquitos Metropolitan Area is the name used to refer to the
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
vian metropolitan area whose principal city is
Iquitos
Iquitos (; ) is the capital city of Peru's Maynas Province, Peru, Maynas Province and Loreto Region. It is the largest metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon, east of the Andes, as well as the List of cities in Peru, ninth-most populous city in Peru ...
, according to Municipality of Iquitos. According to population statistics of
INEI It is
the sixth most populous metropolitan area of Peru in year 2015.
Metropolitan districts
According to studies of municipality of Maynas Iquitos metropolitan area consist in four districts: Iquitos, Belén, Punchana and San Juan Bautista.
The estimated population of
INEI for the metropolitan districts in year 2015 is shown in the following table.
See also
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Maynas Province
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List of metropolitan areas of Peru
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...
References
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Metropolitan areas of Peru