YASUNÍ BIOSPHERE RESERVE - CUYABENO WILDLIFE RESERVE – HUAORANI RESERVE - PAÑACOCHA PROTECTED FOREST – AMAZONAS RIVER

ZONE: Tropical Rainforest.

ATTRACTIVE: Botany, Pink River Dolphins, Indigenous culture, History

ACTIVITIES: Trekking, Navigation, Birdwatching, Adventure

ALTITUDE: 250msnm

TEMPERATURE: 20-35 Centigrade Grades

WEATHER: Unstable

DIFFICULT: Easy

INTEREST: High

ECUADORIAN RAINFOREST

ECUADOR RAINFOREST

In Amazon Rainforest exists one of the biggest resources in the nature: the tropical vegetation, it produces much of the oxygen that we breathe. In this beautiful place we can observe more than 1000 species of plants; they’re used like food, medicine, elaboration of tools, crafts and the constructions.
It is natural laboratory, inside this territory we find the Yasuní National Park (Reserve of the Biosphere), Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve and Pañacocha Protected Forest, in which are identified more than 600 species of birds, the biggest population of pink dolphins, 10 types of monkeys, black alligators, 700 species of fish, included the piranhas in lakes and rivers, amphibians, reptiles and insects. Moreover we can appreciate 3 forest types and, more than 310 species different from plants with a diameter of 10cm in each hectare. There live in perfect armony man/nature many indigenous communities.

BIRDS EASY TO SEE

Ara macao, Ara ararauna, Cacicus cela, Paroaria gularis, Butorides striatus, Cochlearius cochlearius, Ardea cocoi, Tigrisoma lineatum, Episthocomus hoazín, Ara severa, Crothopaga major, Megaceryle torquata, Galbalcyrhynchus leucotis, Monasa nigrifrons, Ramphastos tucanus, Pteroglossus pluricinctus, Campephilus melanoleucus, Donacobius atricapilla, Amazona farinosa, Trogon viridis