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Pucallpa

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Pucallpa

Pucallpa is a city in the Peruvian Amazon. It's an excellent base for visits to lake Yarinacocha, although there are even a few places to stay and eat in the town of Yarinacocha. This articles covers both.

Pucallpa was founded in the 1840s by Franciscan missionaries who settled several families of the Shipibo-Conibo ethnic group. For several decades it remained a small settlement as it was isolated from the rest of the country by the Amazon Rainforest and the Andes mountain range. From the 1880s through the 1920s a railway project to connect Pucallpa with the rest of the country via the Ferrocarril Central Andino was started and dropped several times until it was finally abandoned. Pucallpa's isolation finally ended in 1945 with the completion of a highway to Lima through Tingo Maria. The highway allowed the commercialization of regional products to the rest of the country, thus improving the economic outlook of the region and its capital, Pucallpa. However, the heavy rainfalls of the Amazon Rainforest remain a problem as they erode the highway and can even undermine it by causing flash floods. Pucallpa is served by air through the Captain Rolden International Airport and by river through its port Pucallpillo near the center of the city. During the high water season, the floating ports of La Hoyada and Puerto Italia are used for riverine communications. Pucallpa is connected by road to Lima via the cities Huánuco and Cerro de Pasco. The San Lorenzo Megaport Project proposes to connect Lima with the Atlantic via a rail connection to Pucallpa and the Amazon.

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Climate

Average temperatures

Jan

31.3°C22.4
Precipitation: 147 mm

Feb

30.7°C22.3
Precipitation: 165 mm

Mar

30.7°C22.3
Precipitation: 191 mm

Apr

30.9°C22.1
Precipitation: 163 mm

May

30.4°C21.5
Precipitation: 104 mm

Jun

30.3°C20.5
Precipitation: 66 mm

Jul

30.4°C19.8
Precipitation: 51 mm

Aug

31.8°C20.4
Precipitation: 56 mm

Sep

32.3°C21.1
Precipitation: 91 mm

Oct

31.7°C21.8
Precipitation: 168 mm

Nov

31.5°C22.2
Precipitation: 185 mm

Dec

31.6°C22.4
Precipitation: 180 mm
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