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The Amazon is 7 million km2. It contains 20% of the water supply on the planet. Eight countries make up the Amazon: Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Surinam and Venezuela. Although Ecuador contains only 7% of the Amazon, this portion nevertheless represents 51% of it’s the ecuadorian territory. This exquisite ecosystem is intimately linked with the main economic activit of Ecuador: the exploitation of oil. According to the records of the Ministry of Environment, there are 33 ecological reserves in Ecuador. Each faces different types of exploitation and risk factors, such as hunting, fishing, fires and pollution. Within these potentially harmful scenarios, the indigenous communities try to survive.
El Chalten is a little town born in the early 1980s, located in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares in Argentina. It is an isolated town where everything (food, services) is a little more expensive than in bigger cities in Patagonia such as El Calafate or Río Gallegos. But fortunately you can find almost everything there.
On december 27th I left Quito, I flew to Santiago de Chile, then took a 6 hour bus ride to Mendoza (Argentina), a beautiful city (considered the cleanest in the country).
Our friends over at the ERI (Ecuadorian River Institute) are putting together once again a great event, The Napo River Festival. The festival will take place from January 16th through January 18th 2009 in Misahualli, …
We are happy to learn that Ecuador has two locations in the 2008 Top 25 destinations in South America. We have covered Quito before in this blog. Quito, the capital of Ecuador, located at …
As the year 2007 came to an end, Bryan Rubin and some of his friends took part on a Barefoot Expeditions Adventure. Bryan kindly provided an account of his adventure experience with Barefoot as well …
The animal biodiversity in tropical forests is decreasing in countries such as Ecuador. The global warming and the partitioning of the habitat of this animals is one of the reasons. But also the …
Congratulations to Andrea, Elisa, Antonella & Constanza, they finished the 120 km biking race around Cotopaxi volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes. Right after that, they came to our office in Quito to share their experience …
On October 27th. one of the most important Argentine pop/rock bands of the ’80s and early ’90s, SODA STEREO presented a concert in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in their tour 2007 “Me verás volver”. Sold out …
