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With a long and illustrious history (see & CIP, Peru). {Link without Title} . Yurimaguas is notable for being the last urban center in Loreto connected by highway with the rest of and Moyobamba , located in the tropical Andes (''high-jungle''), or as it is known in the vernacular, the ''montaña''. While the Moisés Benzaquen Rengifo Airport was first established in Yurimaguas in 1937, it is now barely functioning (the collapse of the Peruvian airline Aero Continente left only two airlines serving the airport). For the majority of the populace, transit is dominated by river travel. In the ports of Yurimaguas trade is in tropical forest produce, particularly Hardwoods , Petroleum , Contraband , and goods (licit and otherwise) from the Andean highlands or Pacific Coast sent down-river to Iquitos and beyond (the Port Authority of Yurimaguas, ENAPU is in charge of the International ''Puerto de Yurimaguas, Peru''). |
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