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Colombia’s lone Amazon port faces drying river and rising tensions with Peru

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Unloading boats at the dock at Leticia, Colombia, where the Amazon river has slowly retreated.

Colombia's only Amazon port town could soon be cut off from the river that keeps it alive. As drought and a shifting river spark a tense border dispute with Peru, locals are scrambling to adapt—and politicians are raising flags, literally.

(Image credit: John Otis)

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