Napo () is a
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...
in
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ' ...
. Its
capital is
Tena. The province contains the
Napo River. The province is low developed without much industrial presence. The thick
rainforest is home to many natives that remain isolated by preference, descendants of those who fled the Spanish invasion in the Andes, and the Incas years before. In 2000, the province was the sole remaining majority-indigenous province of Ecuador, with 56.3% of the province either claiming indigenous identity or speaking an indigenous language.
This province is one of the many located in Ecuador's section of the
Amazon Rainforest.
In Napo province are also
Antisana Ecological Reserve,
Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park, and
Limoncocha National Biological Reserve
This Nature reserve is located 229 miles from Quito, Ecuador. The reserve includes over 13,000 acres (53 km2) of land in the Shushufindi Canton, Sucumbíos Province.
Fauna
There is a large concentration of Fauna in and around the reserve. ...
.
Cantons
The province is divided into five
cantons. The following table lists each with its population at the 2001
census
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, its area in square kilometres (km²), and the name of the
canton seat
A canton is a type of administrative division of a country. In general, cantons are relatively small in terms of area and population when compared with other administrative divisions such as counties, departments, or provinces. Internationally, th ...
or
capital.
Cantons of Ecuador
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See also
* Apostolic Vicariate of Napo
The Apostolic Vicariate (Vicariate Apostolic) of Napo ( la, Apostolicus Vicariatus Napensis) is a missionary circonscription (quasi-diocese) of the Roman Catholic Church. Its cathedral see, Catedral San José, is located in the city of Tena, capi ...
, the coinciding Roman Catholic missionary circonscription
* Provinces of Ecuador
Ecuador is divided into 24 provinces ( es, provincias, singular''provincia''). The provinces of Ecuador and their capitals are:
List
1 Population as per the census carried out on 2010-11-28
In addition, there were four areas that were non-del ...
* Cantons of Ecuador
* A'i (Cofan) people
References
Further reading
*Juncosa, Jose E. (ed.) (1997). ''Viajes por el Napo: cartas de un misionero (1924-1930)''. Quito: Abya-Yala.
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