Nauta is a bustling small town situated in the northeastern area of the
Peruvian Amazon roughly 100km south of the Province's capital,
Iquitos. Established by Pacaya–Samiria--a leader of the Cocama peoples following the 1830 uprising at the
Jesuit mission of Lagunas, Nauta soon became the primary commercial hub of the
Peruvian selva baja (known also as
Omagua, or the
Amazonian lowlands) (See William Smyth and Frederick Lowe, 1836:204, 258). In 1853, a
Brazilian owned
steam propelled paddle-wheeler made it all the way to the town of Nauta, located on the north bank of the major
Upper Amazonian tributary, the
Marañón River, a few miles from the confluence of the Río
Ucayali (Edward Mathews, 1879).
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