20 South-American cities furthest from a bigger, with a map.

Name the 20 South-American cities, with a population over 10,000, that are furthest from a bigger South-American city. Distance to nearest bigger city, and population, are given as hint. Nearest bigger city, that is not a remaining answer, is shown.
Urban area populations from citypopulation.de, March 2026.
Distances from timeanddate.com.
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Km
Pop
City
Nearest bigger
-
22.7 M
São Paulo
-
3130
12.2 M
Lima
Buenos Aires
1871
10.8 M
Bogotá
Lima
1687
2.30 M
Manaus
Caracas
1674
17.0 M
Buenos Aires
São Paulo
1635
4.10 M
Recife
Belo Horizonte
1140
8.60 M
Santiago
Buenos Aires
1134
2.20 M
Belém
Fortaleza
1054
12.6 k
Puerto Ayora
Salinas
1026
3.87 M
Caracas
Bogotá
Km
Pop
City
Nearest bigger
1009
1.99 M
Santa Cruz
Asunción
993
3.42 M
Guayaquil
Bogotá
848
123 k
Punta Arenas
Comodoro Rivadavia
843
3.95 M
Porto Alegre
Buenos Aires
822
2.37 M
Asunción
Porto Alegre
769
199 k
Comodoro Rivadavia
Neuquén
755
442 k
Porto Velho
Manaus
742
1.00 M
Cuiabá
Goiânia
703
430 k
Iquitos
Quito
695
240 k
Paramaribo
Boa Vista
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5 Comments
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Level 53
Feb 18, 2021
Great Quiz!
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Level 70
Apr 12, 2022
Thanks!
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Level 80
Apr 12, 2022
nice! I use an Excel macro I found on the internet to find distances between cities in case you are interested - you do need latitude and longitude values though which I don't think are present on citypopulation (they are on other sites eg geonames)
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Level 70
Apr 12, 2022
Thanks! Maybe easier than the way I used; I draw circles around the biggest cities in the continent on calcmaps.com, and checked the distance on timeanddate.com.
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Level 78
Apr 12, 2022
Wow - Iquitos referenced on two quizzes in one day!