What is the population of Iquitos?

The estimates for how many people live in Iquitos vary.

The last official number, from 2015, says that there are 437.400 people living in Iquitos.

Our estimate is that including undocumented people, visitors, the “floating” population that lives in nearby towns and go to Iquitos to work, and other groups, Iquitos city has a population of at least 500.000 or half million people.