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The Aguarico River ( es, Río Aguarico, meaning "rich water") is a
river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...
in northeastern
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. It is the main river of the Sucumbíos province. In the last part of its course it is the Ecuadorian-
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vian border. It empties into the Napo River. It has a length of , of which the last of its course extend along the natural border between Ecuador and
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(in the department of Loreto). The lower course of the Aguarico River was finalized and legally fixed as part of the long-disputed Ecuador-Peru frontier according to The Rio de Janeiro Protocol of 1942. Ecuador unilaterally denounced the protocol in 1960, however a new agreement was signed in 1999 validating the pre-existing protocol. The Aguarico river is a river that flows almost completely by the province of Sucumbíos, in the north of Ecuador, being the main river of the province. In its average course it flows closely near the Reserve of Production Faunística Cuyabeno. In the last part of its course it flows near the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border. Finally it ends at the Napo river, in the same border, a little over the locality the town of Pantoja in Loreto, Peru.


History

In 1541,
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and
Francisco de Orellana Francisco de Orellana Bejarano Pizarro y Torres de Altamirano (; 1511 – November 1546) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. In one of the most improbably successful voyages in known history, Orellana managed to sail the length of the Amaz ...
constructed a sailboat, the San Pedro, and followed the courses of the
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and the Napo River until the confluence of the Napo with the Aguarico River and the
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, where they lacked the proper amount of provisions and supplies, including food. Several men did not survive, and it is estimated that 140 of 220 Spaniards and 3,000 of the 4,000 Indians who composed the expedition were amongst this number. They decided then (22 February 1542) that Orellana would continue down the Aguarico River in search of food. They accompanied about fifty men to go with him. Incapable to overcome the river, Orellana waited for Pizarro. Finally Pizarro sent three men with a message to Orellana for him to begin the construction of a new boat, the Victoria. Meanwhile, Pizarro had returned towards Quito by another route towards the north, with only 80 men, those of which that remained alive.


Indigenous tribes

In the highest part of the Aguarico River live the
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Siona. The Siona peoples belong to the western
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language family, and their official languages are the Piohe (or Pioche) dialects and
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as well as a mixture of the two, which is sometimes called Pioche-Siona. At present they are a group of approximately 172 people united in 51 families. Their economic activities are based mainly on
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,
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and sometimes
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. Some of the problems that the community must face in the present era are environmental contamination and the
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of
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.


See also

* Aguarico River Bridge


References

{{reflist Rivers of Ecuador Rivers of Peru Ecuador–Peru border International rivers of South America Rivers of Loreto Region Border rivers