Santa Rosa is a small island in the middle of the Amazon River. It has just one paved road, no running water and a health ...

SANTA ROSA, Peru (AP) — A remote island on the Amazon river — now the subject of a territorial dispute between Peru and ...

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has visited an Amazon River island at the center of a territorial dispute with Colombia.

Both nations claim Santa Rosa de Yavarí, a tiny island of just 3,000 people that sits in the Amazon River, more than a thousand miles from their capitals.

The island is made up mostly of forest, farmland and a small village known as Santa Rosa de Yavari, which has a population of fewer than 1,000 people, according to Peru’s latest census.

The island is made up mostly of forest, farmland and a small village known as Santa Rosa de Yavari, which has a population of less than 1,000 people, according to Peru’s latest census. Santa Rosa was ...

The island is made up mostly of forest, farmland and a small village known as Santa Rosa de Yavari, which has a population of less than 1,000 people, according to Peru’s latest census.