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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast Peru on the Amazon River northeast of Lima.
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Examples
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Intense deforestation is constrained to the few roads that do exist or around urban centers such as Iquitos, Puerto Maldonado, and Rio Branco.
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I've just gotten back from two months working in Iquitos, Peru and the surrounding jungle.
Peter Gorman: Dengue in Iquitos Peru Peter Gorman 2011
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I've just gotten back from two months working in Iquitos, Peru and the surrounding jungle.
Peter Gorman: Dengue in Iquitos Peru Peter Gorman 2011
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Here's the story: Every year, the federal government of Peru sends money -- accounts vary as to whether it's $2 million U.S. or up to perhaps $5 million U.S. -- to Iquitos for the spraying of mosquitos that carry malaria (genus Anopheles) and dengue (most often Aedes aegypti).
Peter Gorman: Dengue in Iquitos Peru Peter Gorman 2011
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Here's the story: Every year, the federal government of Peru sends money -- accounts vary as to whether it's $2 million U.S. or up to perhaps $5 million U.S. -- to Iquitos for the spraying of mosquitos that carry malaria (genus Anopheles) and dengue (most often Aedes aegypti).
Peter Gorman: Dengue in Iquitos Peru Peter Gorman 2011
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In an effort to not ruin the tourist trade on which Iquitos largely depends, reports from the federal government were that there were a few cases of dengue, nothing big.
Peter Gorman: Dengue in Iquitos Peru Peter Gorman 2011
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In Fitzcarraldo, which deals with a 19th-century rubber baron who dreams of building an opera house in Iquitos, Herzog insisted that the film's central image – moving a 300 tonne steamship over a hill – be achieved without special effects.
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In an effort to not ruin the tourist trade on which Iquitos largely depends, reports from the federal government were that there were a few cases of dengue, nothing big.
Peter Gorman: Dengue in Iquitos Peru Peter Gorman 2011
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They make the necessary antibiotic available to members of the group, only they require that each and every person come to Iquitos to claim it.
Carine Fabius: When the Jungle Calls, Answer the Phone Carine Fabius 2010
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But eventually a state of emergency was declared in Iquitos and the surrounding state of Loreto -- entirely within the northwest Amazon basin.
Peter Gorman: Dengue in Iquitos Peru Peter Gorman 2011
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