Itaya River

Itaya River
Río Itaya
Itaya River; Río Itaya
	A view of the Itaya River from the city of Iquitos
Location
Country	Peru
City	Iquitos
Basin features
River system	Amazon Basin

The Itaya River is a tributary of the Amazon River via the Nanay River^{[citation needed]} 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.^[1] To the north of Malecón Tarapacá is Malecón Maldonado.^[1]

The Itaya River is the namesake of the fan palm genus Itaya, which was first discovered on the river's bank.^[2]

The 2012 floods of the Amazon, Itaya, and Nanay Rivers left approximately 80,000 people homeless.^[3] 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.^[4]

Children play football on a dirt pitch near tin-roofed houses on the bank of the Itaya River.

The Itaya River from vantages around Iquitos

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "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).