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According to some sources, the city was then called Source Lake, but was later changed to Lago Agrio (sour lake) because foreign oil workers suffered from long work days and strenuous working conditions.
Lago Agrio is Spanish for "Sour Lake". The official name of the Ecuadorian town is Nueva Loja. Its current name originates from the fact that the first colonizers came from the Southern Province of Loja. The area around the city, the Lago Agrio oil field, has many ecological problems.
When a consortium of foreign multinationals discovered crude oil in Ecuador in the late 1960’s, Lago Agrio was among the first oil towns to be carved from the depths of the Amazon. Literally “Sour Lake” and also known as Nueva Loja, the sprawling municipality has become an unlikely target for international media attention. There ...
Nueva Loja is the official name for Lago Agrio. Loja has a rather sizable population of 26,000 people. The town came into existence largely due to the establishment of oil fields by the Texan oil company Texaco in the area. It was these Texans who saw fit to name the area after 'Sour Lake' in Texas and the name has since stuck.
Sep 17, 2018 · The 1,700 square miles of rainforest in the Lago Agrio region of Ecuador has been described as ‘one of the world’s most contaminated industrial sites’—Ecuador’s ‘Chernobyl’. Between 1971 and 1992, 16 billion gallons of toxic oil waste were dumped onto the land of indigenous communities.
Mar 10, 2018 · In the end I choose the third option because it was the most direct, the least touristic and I was curious to see a city that bears an evocative name like Lago Agrio (the translation is Sour Lake, while the official name is the most “inviting” Nueva Loja, but no Ecuadorians uses the name Nueva Loja).
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The first oil workers nicknamed Lago Agrio ‘bitter lake,’ after Sour Lake, Texas, the former home of Texaco, which pioneered local drilling. The city’s official name is Nueva Loja, although no one calls it that. Locals settle for ‘Lago.’
