Puyo, Pastaza province,
in the Oriente of Ecuador located in the eastern jungle.
The Pastaza River enters the province from the west
and as the landscape flattens, meanders on to the Napo,
a tributary of the Amazon.
Pastaza is the largest
province in Ecuador and the richest in biodiversity.
To the north of Pastaza are the provinces Napo and Orellana,
to the south is Morona Santiago, to the east is the
country of Peru, and to the west are the provinces Tungurahua
and Moronga Santiago. The total population is about
62,110 inhabitants.
The people who speak the
Shuar language live in tropical rainforest between the
upper mountains of the Andes, and the tropical rainforests
and savannas of the Amazonian lowlands.
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Related
links:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuar
http://whc.unesco.org/
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