Articles tagged with: Iquitos
Peru Weather – Iquitos
![Peru Weather – Iquitos Iquitos climate](http://www.discover-peru.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Iquitos-climate-150x150.png)
Mean minimum and maximum temperatures and mean total rainfall for the city of Iquitos.
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The Rainforest Economy
![The Rainforest Economy Purple cocoa bean](http://www.discover-peru.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Purple-cocoa-bean-150x150.png)
Ever since the Europeans came to the Amazon basin its natural resources have been exploded. The first European settlers grew crops and traded them. The first economic exploitation of the …
The rubber boom
![The rubber boom Rubber tree](http://www.discover-peru.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Rubber-tree-150x150.png)
From the 1890s to the 1920s rubber from the was in high demand, it was used to produce tires for automobiles, waterproof shoes and clothes.
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Foreign companies settled in …