The study was carried out in the city of Iquitos, the design was descriptive, analytical and transversal; with the purpose of evaluating and comparing the level of environmental awareness of students in the 5th year of the secondary level of the rural IE 60115 MIGUEL GRAU SEMINARIO of Padre Cocha, district of Punchana; and the urban IE 60188 SIMÓN BOLÍVAR, district of Iquitos. The population was made up of all 5th year students from both educational institutions and the sample size is 46 students from the rural IE and 94 students from the urban IE, the data were collected through a structured survey-type questionnaire, which consists of 2 parts, the first cognitive with 11 questions and the second behavioral on the Likert scale with an instrument reliability of 0.733 of the Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, for the statistical analysis the Pearson Correlation Coefficient was used and which...