Trips to Ecuador

Capital of the province of Orellana, its official name is not Cocaine, but Port Francisco de Orellana. It is the youngest province of the country (1999). Between his wealth one is petroleum and the wood, besides beautiful landscapes, flora and fauna. Their native inhabitants belong mainly to the nationalities Huaorani, Schuar and Quichua. Its territory has an extension of 20,652 km2s and predominates the climate, sylvan tropical, with abundant rains and humidity.

Located in the confluence of the rivers Napo and Coca, she was refundada 45 years ago after a flood; historically, this small city takes the name of the discoverer of the Amazon river because it is thought that Francisco de Orellana sailed by this sector and arrived until the Marañón river.

The native natives of bordering zones, the Tagaieris or Sachas, is known them like Coca's, because formerly they were going to the place to realize his curative rituals with the chewed cocaine leaves. Some affirm that to the first they founded it colonists with that nickname at the end of century XVIII, after finding wild plants in the borders of the Napo river, near where now the population is based.

Warm and full of colorful, San Francisco de Orellana, reflects in its counted streets full of retailers the Ecuadorian amalgam. It is normal to observe otavaleños with his crafts or esmeraldeños with his coconut candy ring; while lojanos, orenses and manabitas are confused in the sidewalks from the city at which they arrived looking for to improve his life with the “oil boom”. All of them form a Colonizing population, because the native ones decided to take refuge inside the forest fleeing from oil ones. Ironies of the destiny, the colonists did not benefit either from the petroleum and in its majority, as soon as they subsist with little that produce in their parcels or of the commerce.

From this port, crossing the Napo river and crossing a fantastic full route of vegetation and with the basic sound of the animal of the forest, is arrived to Iquitos in Peru, Leticia Port in Colombia, Tabatinga, Manaos and Bethlehem Port in Brazil, to connecting itself with the Atlantic Ocean.