A border town that you can only reach by plane or riverboat, Iquitos is the gateway to Peru's Amazonian wilderness and/or the gateway to the outside world, depending on which way you're traveling.

Shortly after finishing my second year of medical school I have come to Iquitos, Peru. With a population of nearly half a million, it is the world's largest city inaccessible by road. Iquitos is ...

Iquitos, in the Amazon rainforest, is the world's largest city without road access. Fascinating for its geographical location in the Amazon rainforest, Iquitos can only be reached by boat or plane.

IQUITOS, PERU — Deep in the Amazon rainforest, at a jungle hospital teeming with patients, two U.S. medical students are racing to save a man's life. Alex Gorin and Diana Partida are rushing the ...

In Monday’s Daily Dilemma, we asked students to help us figure out how we should get around while we are in Iquitos. Students responded with a variety of good answers. The majority of you thought that ...