Hello! from the Amazon's Noise Capital
Hello! from the Amazon's Noise Capital
Deep in the Peruvian rain forest, Iquitos is one of Latin America's noisiest cities. Here's what residents are doing to fix that.
A visitor to the Amazon rain forest might expect to hear the call of birds, the buzz of insects and the screech of monkeys — but probably not car horns and roaring motors. Yet those are the predominant sounds echoing through the streets of Iquitos, a metropolis deep in the Peruvian Amazon.
Iquitos has a reputation as perhaps the noisiest city in Latin America, and after just a few minutes on the street, it’s easy to hear why. The city’s traffic is not only congested, but also unusually loud. Urban Amazonians have long relied on motorcycles and mototaxis — three-wheeled motorized...
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