Due to its location in the Peruvian Amazon, Iquitos has a green landscape with a vast variety of life. The flora is varied with great presence of 850 species, including 22 species of palms and orchids, who provide the attractive forest within the urban landscape of the city. The lilies also present. The extensive forests seated within metropolitan influence host fauna with 130 species of mammals, 330 of birds, 150 of reptiles and amphibians, and 250 fish. Within the city, inhabiting the rock dove ("Columba livia"), especially in the Square 28 de Julio. Also recorded the transient presence of bull sharks ("Carcharhinus leucas") who come from the Atlantic Ocean, traveling 3,360 miles to Iquitos.