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Extract from the Satipo Travel Guides:
SATIPO
, accessible by a three- to four-hour bus ride east from La Merced, is a real jungle frontier town, where the indigenous Ashaninka Indians come to buy supplies and trade. Developing around the rubber extraction industry some eighty years ago, it now serves as an economic and social centre for a widely scattered population of over forty thousand colonists, offering them tools, food supplies, medical facilities, banks and even a cinema. With the surfacing of the road all the way from Lima, a veritable flat carpet unfurling through the jungle valleys, many more colonists have moved into the region, but the rate of development is putting s...
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