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	TRIPS TO ECUADOR: TENA LOCATION: The Tena corner belongs to the province of Napo. Tena is the cantonal and capital head of the province, where the provincial administration concentrates itself. It is a beautiful city divided by the Tena river. SURFACE: 3.894, 8 km2s POPULATION: 46,007 inhabitants HISTORY: When the Spaniards founded the cities of Archidona, Avila and Alcala of the Dorado River, the earth were distributed, including the natives who lived there, for their operation and benefit. The natives, tired to support the excesses of the Spaniards, fled towards the forest choosing the borders from the rivers Tena, Pano or Napo to form their populated centers. With arrival of Jesuits these concentrations human took names from Tena, Port Napo, San Javier (near where today it is Misahualli Port), Ahuano, Santa Rosa (near the present hotel Jaguar), among others. They were towns that belonged to the radius of influence of Archidona. They disappeared while others acquired prestige. The quijos, at certain moment of history, lost their original language and happened to be called quichuas, alamas or yumbos. The groups quichuas were different themselves from others taking the name from the place where they lived, thus we had the cloth, misahuallíes, ongotas, ahuanos, etc. GEOGRAPHY: The Tena corner promotes of this the west gradually from its limit with the Orellana corner, to about 300 meters on the level of the sea, to the Eastern mountain range where are mounts like the Quilindaña and Beautiful Cerro, in the mountain range of the Llanganates. Close and around the city of Tena smaller elevations like the Pasourco, Pullurco, Chiuta, Tamburo, Itaurco, etc. exist. The Napo river is the main fluvial artery of the Tena corner. This river, known in the time of the conquest like river Santa Ana or river of the Cinnamon, forms a little Napo Port more above in the confluence of the Jatunyacu with the Anzu. By the left margin they end at the Napo the Misahuallí, Pusuno and Suno. By the right the rivers Arajuno and Rodriguez. The Bueno river, affluent of the Suno serves as limit with the Loreto corner. In the Eastern mountain range and spurs of the same we found lagoons like Yanacocha, Great Inn, Conga, Chaupi Rumi, Zapala, Yanacocha of San Antonio, the Solitude, etc. TOURIST INTEREST: The eco-tourism is an important economic activity in the corner. A tourist infrastructure exists that progresses gradually. Tena counts on several hotels like Misahuallì Port that has become a tourist destiny at world-wide level. In Tena and Misahuallì Port tourism is done of forest visiting rivers, beaches, lagoons, showing the flora, the fauna, the piscicultural wealth, the customs, traditions, crafts and culture of the indigenous communities. In the shores of the Napo to important hotels of forest and other facilities rise that they attract the traveller. - Bath natural. In the route Tena - Muyuna - Atacapi, waters above of the Tena, exist crystalline water beaches. Among others, they are Ropes, Island of the Love, San Pedro, Puma Rumi, Acllais. - Sports of risk. Nagegar by the rivers in káyaks, canoes, boats, rafts or in simple buoys is a sport that every day has more followers. - Shamánico World. - Shamanes quijos always had fame of powerful. Their descendants, shamanes quichuas, are legally organized in an association that he looks for to eradicate the presence of timadores and false healers. The cantonal shamánico map is diverse and attractive. In order to obtain an official data on each one of the shamanes that they operate legally is necessary to make contact with the enemy with the Association of Shamanes de Napo. - Observation of birds and animal. - For the lovers of the amazonian fauna the supply is interesting In the lamederos, to certain hours of the day, go hundreds of birds and other animal. It is possible also to locate the specific habitats of certain species like the rooster of the rock. - Sport and traditional Fishing. - In sites like the bridge on the river Napo, Pilquiña, Pioculín, Santa Rosa, Ongota, he is feasible to practice sport fishing or to know the forms traditional to fish with ishinga, networks, drying of chictas, barbasco, harpoon. The native ichthyological fauna includes/understands bocachicos, jandias, catfishes, alpacas, shrimps of river, apancoras, carachazas… - Cascades. - They are many and interesting. The one of San Jacinto one is around the bridge on the Misahuallí river, in the route Tena - Archidona. The Copa river, before ending at the Misahuallí, more underneath Ongota, is sent in a cascade of singular beauty. The cascade of Ichurco, in the jurisdiction of Tálag is part of an attractive group of logales where they excel a lamedero of dark-brown and poza of natural hidromasaje. We cannot forget to us the cascade of Pimpilala, in the route Salcedo Tena, or the one of Tins, via Misahual. - Communitarian Tourism. - The indigenous communities have their own network of comunicatario tourism. Cabins of architecture quichua, native guides, ancestral shamánicos rites, typical food, medicinal plants, music and dance, legend and traditions are part of this singular supply. Forced sites to visit are the communitarian facilities of Napus Treck, Capirona, Cuyaloma, Machakuy yaku, Chuba urco, Galeras, Wasila, Runa wasi, Blanco River. - Crafts. - They are elaborated with different materials like chonta, toots, guadúa, chambira, seeds, bones, raft…, all of highest quality. The community of Shandía, Tálag parish, excels by its crafts in whose (pilche); in Acllas, via Tena - Muyuna works in ceramics. Typical suits are made in Atahualpa, San Antonio, Paushiyacu and Chambira. In Tena crafts in Pusuno Adventure can be found, Tawa shock, Arutam or in the Terrestrial Terminal. - Botanical Gardens. - Without doubt they constitute attractive a tourist one of first order. We allowed ourselves to recommend: Green hope in and of Misahuallí, White Capirona, Rivers, Ishpingo and the biological station of Jatun Sacha. - Museums. - They are in formation process and they pick up archaeological samples of the first inhabitants of the zone. They emphasize Rumisamay in the Misahuallí route and the one of the Botanical Garden, also in Misahuallí. - Disciplinary centers animal. - Two sites worthy Exist to visit themselves where the captured animal are rehabilitated to return them to their natural habitat. Yana Logd in the route to Ahuano and Sinchi Runa in the zone of Arajuno - Caverns. - The jurisdiction of Tena is full of caverns where the estalacticas and stalagmites reaffirm the sculptural profession of the nature. The list is long reason why we will only indicate a few: San Rosa, in the route to Napo Port; Toglo, Tins, Awapunto, Yusupino, Itaurco, Pimpilala, Ongota, Ilukulín, Galeras, Machaky yacu, Whose hill, Ponce hill, Blanco River, Yusupino - Petroglyphs. - They are the spellings that testify the presence of the man in the zone for thousands of years. These recorded stones are located, to borders of the rivers and generally indicate the route historical of those towns. The petroglyphs of the runway are known in Tena, Puma rumi, Toad rumi, Pumayacu, Yusupino, Piokulín, Ongota, etc. - Gold Laundries. - The affluent rivers of the Napo, especially those that are born in the Eastern mountain range are famous by their auriferous wealth. The extraction of this alluvial gold established several working standards, but the most known and than still they last are those that use the gutters and trays. - Gastronomy. - The gastronomical patrimony picks up a rich and variable cultural expression. From the culture quichua contributes an amplest sample book of fruits of the forest that during the year responds to a specific agricultural calendar. Steps, pitones, chontas, guabas, guachanzos, provisions, soursops, legs, at their time of maturity, not only summon to the man but to an immense variety of birds and animal. Between drinks they emphasize chicha of yucca, of chonta, vinillo and chucula. Chucula is a drink prepared with mature banana, preferably orito. One puts them to cook and soon with the chuculero (a beater manual, made with the branch of a tree) it is come to liquefy it. It is consumed it fries or it warms up. In some homes still today he is one of favorite foods. - City of Tena: - Chapel of the Doroteas Mothers. - Located in the suroccidental corner of the central base of Tena. It is the first church constructed by the josefinos missionaries. - Monument to Jumandy. - It is located in the North exit of the city of Tena. Jumandy: Great Cacique military is the historical figure more outstanding of the Amazonia. It commanded the rise of the quijos in 1578, during which the populations of Avila and Archidona burned themselves. It was a libertario movement destined to not only eradicate the Spanish presence of this territory but of the same Real Hearing of Quito. - Amazonian Park “the Island”. - Located in the finishing nail that forms by the union of the rivers Pano and Tena. It is acceded to him through a suspension bridge located in the South end of the avenue Francisco de Orellana, in the Bellavista district. One is a center of tourist interpretation where one concentrates an interesting sample of the flora and regional fauna. They emphasize the constructions by an unequivocal influence of the architecture quichua of the Napo - Closed Levee of Tena. Area located next to the Tena river, in the old helmet of the city. A beautiful place where samples of ornamental plants can be appreciated, sculptures that reproduce amazonian ceramics, fulling mills or trays to wash gold. Ideal site to observe the river and to make photographies of the city. In the opposed border of the Tena river another section of levee exists that invites to the routes nocturnes to enjoy the breeze and the originating sounds of the forest.

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