Itaya River
The Itaya River is a tributary of the Amazon River via the Nanay River in northern Peru. The Itaya flows alongside the city of Iquitos and the district of Belén.
In Iquitos, a riverwalk and breakwater called Malecón Tarapacá overlooks the Itaya. To the north of Malecón Tarapacá is Malecón Maldonado.
The Itaya River is the namesake of the fan palm genus Itaya, which was first discovered on the river's bank.
The 2012 floods of the Amazon, Itaya, and Nanay Rivers, amid the heaviest rains the region had endured in 40 years, left approximately 80,000 people homeless. In April 2015, 11 hours of steady rain swelled the Itaya again, causing the Iquitos–Nauta highway to collapse at four points: kilometres 22, 22.2, 23, and 26.
See also
References
- ^ "Oficina Nacional de Evaluación de Recursos Naturales (ONERN)". 1980.
- ^ "Oficina Nacional de Evaluación de Recursos Naturales (ONERN)". 1980.
- ^ "Malecón Tarapacá". MINCETUR. San Isidro: Ministry of Foreign Commerce and Tourism (Peru). Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ Piptocarpha (Compositae: Vernonieae). Flora Neotropica. New York: New York Botanical Garden Press. 2007. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-89327-482-5. OCLC 77504368.
- ^ "Inundaciones afectan a unos 80 mil pobladores" [Flooding affects some 80,000 poor]. Perú.21 (in Spanish). 7 April 2012. Archived from the original on 2014-07-31. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ "Loreto: Colapsó la carretera Iquitos-Nauta por crecida del río Itaya" [Loreto: Iquitos-Nauta highway collapsed by swelling of the Itaya River]. Perú.21 (in Spanish). 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
External links
Media related to Itaya River at Wikimedia Commons- Arellano Valdivia, Juan (4 April 2012). "La creciente del Amazonas y las inundaciones en Loreto" [The rising of the Amazon and the floods in Loreto]. Globalizado (in Spanish).
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