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The Oriente is Ecuador’s great wilderness region, where the slopes of the Andes meet the thick rainforest of the Amazon basin. Like the Galapagos, a striking array of animals call this region ...
All large amazon mammals are present: the lowland tapirs, two species of deer, all Amazon cats, including jaguars and pumas, capibaras, two species of dolphins, manatees, both otter species, giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) and neotropical otter (Lutra longicaudis), etc. Monkeys are represented by 10 species, while rodents and bats are ...
Baños de Agua Santa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaɲos ðe ˈaɣwa ˈsanta]), commonly referred to as Baños, is a city in eastern Tungurahua Province of Ecuador.Baños is the second most populous city in Tungurahua, after the capital Ambato, and is a major tourist center.
The Upano Valley sites are a cluster of archaeological sites in the Amazon rainforest. They are located in the Upano River valley in Morona-Santiago Province in eastern Ecuador. The sites comprise several cities; they are believed to have been inhabited as early as 500 BC, predating any other known complex Amazonian society by over a millennium ...
Ecuador has completed its second debt-for-nature swap, this time unlocking $460 million to protect and manage the forests and wetlands of its Amazon rainforest, NGO The Nature Conservancy said on ...
President Joe Biden made a historic visit to the Amazon on Sunday and made a call for future generations to protect the wildlife in the region. Biden also pointed out that his successor, president ...
The video accumulated over 10 million views within 2 days. Binsky also began earning money from YouTube and Facebook advertising revenue and sponsored partnerships with various brands. [ 5 ] He has over 12 million followers on social media and holds two Guinness World Records : visiting the most UNESCO Heritage sites in a 24-hour period and for ...
The Tiputini River is a tributary of the Napo River in eastern Ecuador. It is the first major, navagable river south of the Napo and forms the northern border of Yasuni National Park . Unlike the Napo, the Tiputini has a relatively deep, narrow channel carved deep into the clay of the Amazon Basin , and it often fluctuates in depth by several ...