Since
Lago Agrio.
This city baptized by the American workers of Texaco became
the oil center most important of equator.
But especially, Lago Agrio is the entry of the natural reserve
of Cuyabeno. This reserve created in 1979 to protect 650
000 hectares from forest, of which a part, the igapo, is
flooded, letting animal and vegetable lives then overlap
in a strange way. It shelters an enormous variety of vegetable
and animal species, most easily observable being the birds,
the tortoises, the monkeys, the lazy ones and, sometimes,
the caimans. Indian communities, Sionas-Secoyas, Cofanes
and Quechuas live in the reserve.
Since
Coke
Pompeya, mission nasturtium, have a museum ethnoculturel.
Opposite one can visit the island of the monkeys, which
shelters a large colony there. A path through the forest
connects Pompeya to Limoncocha, which has a superb lake
where live more than 400 species of birds, of which toucans
and parrots. In the south, the ethnobotanic reserve protects
the Huaorani Indians.
The national park largest Yasuni and of equator. UNESCO
which declared it "reserve of the international biosphere",
unfortunately could not prevent the installation of an oil
company (Elf).
Since
Tena
Tena was rested by the Spanish missionaries in 1560. Become
an agricultural center, it is surrounded of, banana and
farm coffee plantations of breeding. Very close to the city,
the Pano rivers and Tena are bordered of pleasant beaches
and thermal swimming pools. Here, colonization involved
the disappearance of some animal species (wild monkeys,
Jaguar, pigs), but a large variety of birds, flowers and
especially of butterflies proliferate there.
The road of Puyo with Tena crosses impressing it canyon
of the Pastaza river, where the thick vegetation mixes giant
trees, broméliacées and orchises.
Since
Macas
Cueva of los Tayos proposes with adventurous, after several
hours of canoe and a few kilometers of walk, the occasion
to test their courage. Indeed, in this cave proliferate:
tarantulae, beetles of 20 cm, bats, boa constrictors, and
of the thousands of tayos (curious night birds).
The area of Zamora is known since the time précolombienne
for its high content in gold. The gold bearing centers continue
their development with the image of the village of Nambija
where hundreds of minors daily risk their life in a feverish
atmosphere. To go there can be dangerous.
