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|official_name = Yurimaguas
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|nickname = ''Perla del Huallaga'' (Pearl of the Huallaga)
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|image_caption = Plaza de Armas of Yurimaguas
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|subdivision_name1 = [[Loreto region|Loreto]]
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|subdivision_name2 = [[Alto Amazonas Province|Alto Amazonas]]
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|subdivision_name3 = [[Yurimaguas District|Yurimaguas]]
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|leader_title = [[Mayor]]
|leader_name = Hugo Araujo Del Águila <br><small>(2019-2022)</small>
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|pop_est_footnotes =<ref>{{cite report |url=http://proyectos.inei.gob.pe/web/biblioineipub/bancopub/Est/Lib1020/cuadros/c0206.xls |title=Perú: Población estimada al 30 de junio y tasa de crecimiento de las ciudades capitales, por departamento, 2011 y 2015 |work=Perú: Estimaciones y proyecciones de población total por sexo de las principales ciudades, 2012-2015 |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática |date=March 2012 |access-date=2015-06-03}}</ref>
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|blank_info = [[Tropical rainforest climate|Tropical]]
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'''Yurimaguas''' is a port town in the [[Loreto Region]] of the northeastern [[Peruvian Amazon]]. Historically associated with the [[Mainas missions]], the culturally diverse town is affectionately known as the "Pearl of the Huallaga" (''Perla del Huallaga''). Yurimaguas is located at the confluence of the majestic [[Huallaga River|Huallaga]] and Paranapura Rivers in the steamy [[rainforests]] of northeastern [[Peru]]. It is the capital of both [[Alto Amazonas Province]] and Yurimaguas District, and had a population estimated at 62,903 inhabitants ([[2017 Peru Census|2017]]).
With a long and illustrious history,<ref>[[Samuel Fritz]], "Misión de los [[Omaguas]], Yurimaguas, Aizuares, Ibanomas y otras naciones desde Napo al rio Negro" in [[Pablo Maroni]]'s 1738 ''Noticias auténticas del famoso río [[Marañón River|Marañón]]'' or ''Journal of the Travels and Labours of Father Samuel Fritz in the River of the Amazons 1686-2008'', reprinted in 1922)</ref> Yurimaguas is a tourist destination, especially during the August 15 annual Catholic festival of the [[Assumption of Mary|Assumption]]. Long dominated by the presence of the Church, the town is home to the [[Apostolic Vicariate]] of Yurimaguas, [[Loreto Region]]. Visited in 1855 by the famed botanist [[Richard Spruce]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20060925103945/http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/botany/spruce/RESOURCES/diary_1855.dsml], Yurimaguas remains an important commercial center for [[subsistence]] and market oriented farmers or ''ribereños'' (who cultivate [[sugar cane]], [[banana]]s, [[cotton]], [[tobacco]], [[manioc]] and other comestible produce) and fishermen.<ref>Rhoades, Robert and Pierre Bidegaray ''Los Agricultores de Yurimaguas''. Lima, Peru: Centro de Estudio Amazonas. 1987, or the English version ''The Farmers of Yurimaguas: Land Use and Cropping Strategies in the Peruvian Jungle''. Lima:[[International Potato Center]] & CIP, Peru).</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lanra.uga.edu/rhoades/rhoades-cv.html |title=Dr. Robert e. Rhoades: Curriculum Vitae |access-date=July 10, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901130635/http://www.lanra.uga.edu/rhoades/rhoades-cv.html |archive-date=September 1, 2006 }}</ref>
Yurimaguas is notable for being the last urban center in Loreto connected by highway with the rest of [[Peru]]: a recently paved road links Yurimaguas with [[Tarapoto]] and [[Moyobamba]], located in the tropical Andes (''high-jungle''), or as it is known in the vernacular, the ''montaña''. While the [[Moisés Benzaquén 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''). Yurimaguas boasts a magnificent Cathedral built by the [[Passionist]] Order, and modeled after the Cathedral in [[Burgos]], Spain.{{cn|date=February 2023}}
[[File:Santagema.jpg|none|thumb|Santa Gema Hospital]]
==References==
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[[Category:Populated places in the Department of Loreto]]
[[Category:Port cities and towns in Peru]]
[[Category:Upper Amazon]]
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