Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, ...

A Catholic bishop in Peru's Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people ...

A South American trade bloc has ruled that Peru is failing to curb illegal gold mining and mercury trafficking.

The Amazon has been called a “tree of rivers” – multi-branched, intricate, connected – and in many ways, a cruise is the only way to really explore it.

Iquitos, in the Amazon rainforest, is the world's largest city without road access. Fascinating for its geographical location in the Amazon rainforest, Iquitos can only be reached by boat or plane.

People in Iquitos, Peru, refer to their city as "una isla," an island, even though it's not an island. Iquitos is a port city of roughly 400,000 people on the Amazon River in northeastern Peru.

A border town that you can only reach by plane or riverboat, Iquitos is the gateway to Peru's Amazonian wilderness and/or the gateway to the outside world, depending on which way you're traveling.

Iquitos, Peru – Late afternoon is the busiest time in the muddy harbour of Iquitos in the Amazon basin, in the northeast of Peru. Men haul stacks of bottled soda and kilos of rice on their backs, ...

LEWISTON — Peter Stonewall Jenson, 73, died June 20, 2010, at his home at Ceiba Tops, near Iquitos, Peru, after a valiant nine-month battle with esophageal cancer. He was surrounded by his Explorama ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As gold prices hover at record highs, a leading Catholic leader in Peru’s Amazon is urging countries that are destinations for the precious metal to help stem illegal mining ...