Iquitos Travel Guide

Amazon Indigenous Tribes Photos Videos

Welcome to the original Iquitos Monthly website!  The premier source of news and travel information for Iquitos, Peru and the Peruvian Amazon.  This Geocities website is where is all began.  Subsequently, we expanded, renamed, and moved the Iquitos Monthly to two different websites - www.iquitosnews.com and www.amazon-indians.org.  As you might guess, the Iquitos News specializes as a Iquitos Travel Guide, while Amazon Indians website is dedicated to providing photos and information on native Amazonian tribes. 

The Iquitos News, like its predecessor, the Iquitos Monthly, serves as an up to date Iquitos Travel Guide.  Here you will find all you need to know about Iquitos in order to have a safe and enjoyable journey.  Check out our guide of the ten best restaurants in Iquitos for information on Amazonian culinary delights.  A series of three photo essays explore the City of Belen, the Belen Street Market, and the Pasaje Paquito Medicinal Plant Market.  Additionally, enjoy the telling of various Amazonian legends that originated in the Iquitos area. 

At Amazon Indians you will find photo essays on the various indigenous tribes of the Amazon Rainforest.  Specifically, the Matis, Matses-Mayorunas, Marubos, Shipibos, Boras, Yaguas, Korubos, Yanomami, and Indians of the Xingu.  In addition, you will encounter geographic maps of Peru and the Eastern and Western Amazon that indicate the locations of various Amazonian Indian tribes.  Moreover, you can learn about various ceremonies and rituals performed by these indigenous people of the Amazon.  Native American legends of the pink dolphin and victoria regia are also told. 

In addition to photo essays, you can download free video leaders on the Matis Indians, a Pano-speaking tribe of the Javari River Valley in extreme western Brazil.  The Matis videos offer a unique glimpse into the past, as the Matis tribe is one of the last hunter-gatherer tribes left in South America.  The videos illustrate important aspects of their culture, including blowgun hunting with curare, using natural resources of the Amazon Rain Forest for food, processing food sources, creating shelters, weaving bracelets, fabricating indigenous jewelry, and performing ceremonies and rituals.