Iquitos, a town in the Peruvian department of Loreto, on the left bank of the Marañon, about 75 miles above the mouth of the Rio Napo. It has an active trade, valued at two million dollars annually; the imports are exchanged mostly for india-rubber. Pop. 8000—five-sixths Indians and half-castes.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 197
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