Itaya River

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| image_caption = A view of the Itaya River from the city of Iquitos

| image_alt = Evening sun reflects in the water of the Itaya River. The water is alive with islands of trees and other green vegetation. A rowboat and a painted shack are mirrored in the water; around them lumber is scattered haphazardly on the water's surface. The opposite bank of the river is on the horizon, verdant and thick with trees.

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The Itaya River is a tributary of the Amazon River via the Nanay River{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} in northern Peru. The Itaya flows alongside the city of Iquitos and the district of Belén.

In Iquitos, a riverwalk and breakwater called Malecón Tarapacá overlooks the Itaya.{{cite web |url=http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/TURISMO/OTROS/inventario%20turistico/Ficha.asp?cod_Ficha=999 |title=Malecón Tarapacá |website=MINCETUR |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Commerce and Tourism (Peru) |location=San Isidro |access-date=2016-04-07}} To the north of Malecón Tarapacá is Malecón Maldonado.

The Itaya River is the namesake of the fan palm genus Itaya, which was first discovered on the river's bank.{{cite book |title=Piptocarpha (Compositae: Vernonieae) |series=Flora Neotropica |year=2007 |publisher=New York Botanical Garden Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-89327-482-5 |oclc=77504368 |page=51}}

The 2012 floods of the Amazon, Itaya, and Nanay Rivers, amid the heaviest rains the region had endured in 40 years, left approximately 80,000 people homeless.{{cite web |url=http://peru21.pe/2012/04/07/impresa/inundaciones-afectan-80-mil-pobladores-2019067 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140731223149/http://peru21.pe/2012/04/07/impresa/inundaciones-afectan-80-mil-pobladores-2019067 |archive-date=2014-07-31 |title=Inundaciones afectan a unos 80 mil pobladores |trans-title=Flooding affects some 80,000 poor |website=Perú.21 |language=Spanish |date=7 April 2012 |access-date=2016-04-07}} In April 2015, 11 hours of steady rain swelled the Itaya again, causing the Iquitos–Nauta highway to collapse at four points: kilometres 22, 22.2, 23, and 26.{{cite web |url=http://peru21.pe/actualidad/loreto-colapso-carretera-iquitos-nauta-crecida-rio-itaya-2215765/11 |title=Loreto: Colapsó la carretera Iquitos-Nauta por crecida del río Itaya |trans-title=Loreto: Iquitos-Nauta highway collapsed by swelling of the Itaya River |website=Perú.21 |date=2 April 2015 |language=Spanish |access-date=2016-04-07}}

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| image1 = Rio Itaya bañando las orillas de Iquitos.jpg

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| alt3 = Children play football on a dirt pitch near tin-roofed houses on the bank of the Itaya River.

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| footer = The Itaya River from vantages around Iquitos

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