Mike Collis

Just 22 kilometers from downtown Iquitos and about thirty five minutes by car on an asphalt road, lies the 57,500 square hectares Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve, a true natural treasure that protects representative specimens of this area’s extraordinary natural biodiversity. The purpose for its creation was based precisely upon “the remarkable ecosystem variability” taking place there …

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Fany Kuiru, is an amazonian native, a member of the Witoto Tribe from the area between Peru and Colombia in the region around the Putumayo River. Over a 100 years ago the rubber barons enslaved, tortured, raped and killed over 30,000 indigenous amazonian natives. Fany recently discovered some old photographs of some of her ancestors …

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During the latter part of the 19th century rubber was discovered here in Amazonia. The Rubber Boom had begun. During the 1880s the countries of Peru and Ecuador sent samples of rubber to England and the United States. Rubber was very much in demand then because it was being used in many products, but it …

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For nearly thirty-five years Iquitos had a narrowgage railroad that operated in the city. Visitors to the city’s 28th of July Plaza can see the last remnant of this railroad—a tiny steam locomotive. Often overlooked as a toy train in a kid’s park, the locomotive, now mounted on a concrete pedestal, was one of four …

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Armadillo is the Spanish word meaning “Little Armoured One” but the Giant Armadillo is the largest of all the armadillos and could not at all be considered “little”. The Giant Armadillo can grow up to 5 feet in length and weigh up to 130 lbs. The Giant Armadillo population covers a wide area. Although most …

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The Chullachaqui, the mysterious guardian and shape shifter of the Amazon Rainforest The name refers to the Amazonian folktale about a gnome which lives in the jungle. Your friend is out of sight for a moment and reappears but, unknown to you, he is in fact the mischievous Chullachaqui. He leads you deep into the …

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3.4 degrees south of the equator, 100 klicks up the Ampiyacu River (poison river) well off the tourist grid, I was running an expedition in an area few outsiders have ever been to. I had my all-indigenious staff, and a Canadian friend, Jason Stien, who turned out to be a real sport on a special …

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Abridged from an up-coming book by D.W. Walker, 创The Ink Boom: 100 Years of Expat Writers in Iquitos, Peru. In the lost jungle city of Iquitos, Peru, colorful eccentrics are as thick on the ground as poisonous snakes. To stand above the canopy among such a strange crowd requires a towering personality, and Richard ”Aukcoo” …

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Ranging from Central America south to Paraguay the Bullet Ant is very widespread in fact it is said that there are 4 Bullet Ant nests to every hectare of rainforest. Unlike other ants there are normally only a few hundred occupants to each nest. Nests are usually located at the bases of trees. The worker …

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Isaias Fermin Fitzcarrald was a man of those times. He was born in 1862, the eldest of the seven children of an Irish Navy man who had established himself in the mining district of San Luis de Huari, in the Central Andes of Perú, North of Lima. He studied first in Huaraz, close to his …

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