Loreto

Loreto, an interior department of Peru, watered for thousands of miles by the Marañon and its tributaries. Area, 33,000 sq. m.; pop. 61,125. The quickest route from the coast to this province, which is only some 700 miles distant in a direct line, is round the north coast of South America and up the Amazons, a journey of 6500 miles. The capital is Iquitos (q.v.).