Is Cuyabeno safe?
We feel that Cuyabeno should fall in the category of “safe for traveling” for nationals of most countries, but maybe not for citizens of the USA. The USA Embassy has issued a travel safety alert for the entire border with Colombia, from the coast to the east, just for the mere fact that it borders with Colombia.
Is Cuyabeno in the Amazon?
The Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve is an important nature reserve in Amazonia with rather unusual ecological characteristics. Located at the foothills of the Andes, it is different from any other Amazon protected area in the world.
How do you get to Cuyabeno Ecuador?
BY PLANE – The only way to get to Cuyabeno National Park from Guayaquil is through Quito Airport. You can take a flight from Guayaquil to Mariscal Sucre Airport (Quito). Flights are carried by LATAM Airlines, Avianca & Tame Airlines.
What is one of the most visited sites in the oriente region?
Discounts are best negotiated in the low season, from February to mid-June and September to November. The best places to meet people looking to share a jungle tour, in roughly descending order, are Quito, Baños, Tena, Misahuallí, Puyo and Macas.
How do you get to Lago Agrio?
The best way it to take a scheduled flight or shuttle flight to Lago Agrio (meeting point). Travelers on a longer journey rather to take a night bus or a shuttle bus service. BY PLANE – Tame Airlines offers daily scheduled flights from Quito to Lago Agrio, which departs at 9:10 AM and takes approximately 35 minutes.
What is Lago Agrio?
Lago Agrio or Nueva Loja is a city in the Amazon region of Ecuador. It is the capital of the province of Sucumbios and was founded in the 1960s as a base camp by Texaco. This city is the entrance to the southern part of the Ecuadorian Amazonas Jungle.
What did Chevron do in Ecuador?
In 2011, an Ecuadorian judge ordered Chevron to pay $18.2 billion for “extensively polluting” the Lago Agrio region in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Ecuador’s highest court upheld the verdict a year later. However, it reduced the amount of compensation to $9.5 billion.
How much oil did Chevron dump in Ecuador?
While drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon from 1964 to 1990, Texaco – which merged with Chevron in 2001 – deliberately dumped more than 16 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilled roughly 17 million gallons of crude oil, and left hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor.