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Yasuní National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Yasuní) is a protected area comprising roughly 10,000 km 2 (3,900 sq mi) between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in Pastaza and Orellana Provinces within Amazonian Ecuador. [1] The national park lies within the Napo moist forests ecoregion and is primarily rain forest.
The Napo moist forests ecoregion covers part of the Amazon basin to the east of the Andes in the north of Peru, the east of Ecuador and the south of Colombia. Spread over 25,174,684 hectares (62,208,000 acres), [1] the ecoregion extends from the foothills of the Andes in the west almost to the city of Iquitos, Peru in the east, where the Napo and Solimões (Upper Amazon) rivers join.
On one location in neighbouring Yasuní National Park, 307 species of trees/hectare were counted. The river system covers the rivers Aguarico, San Miguel and Cuyabeno along with their tributaries. Aforementioned two lake systems, both north of the Aguarico River have 13 lakes, while the largest lake, Zancudo Coche is South of the river.
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The main scientific laboratory at TBS. Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) is a scientific field research center in the Ecuadorian Amazon.It was established in 1995 by Universidad San Francisco de Quito in collaboration with Boston University, and is jointly managed by them as a center of education, research and conservation.
Yasuni can mean: Yasuní National Park, Ecuador Yasuní-ITT Initiative, a proposal to refrain from exploiting oil reserves within the park; Yasuní River, in Ecuador; Yasuni antwren, a bird; Lophostoma yasuni, a species of bat; Osteocephalus yasuni, a species of frog
More recently, the body of a 37-year-old rare wood poacher, Luis Castellanos, was found in March 2008 in the Yasuni area, with nine iron-headed spears jutting out of his stomach. According to local officials, the killers are presumed to have been Tagaeri or the Taromenani.