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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.
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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.
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Nueva Loja (new Loja) was sparsely settled by colonizers who came directly from the southern Ecuadorian province of Loja. When they arrived in the Amazon, they named the site after the colony they had just established. In the 1960s, Nueva Loja mushroomed in size and importance, as a base camp for the US oil company Texaco. According to some sources...
Like most of Ecuador’s Amazon basin, Lago Agrio has a warm, rainy climate. The heaviest rainfall comes during the Northern Hemisphere’s summer (June through August). Temperatures range from about 23º C to 35 º C. See our packing listfor advice about preparing adequately for your trip to Ecuador
Buses leave Quito’s Terminal Terrestre Cumandá for Lago Agrio about every 20 minutes. The trip from Quito is about 7 hours and the cost should be about $8. Buses also go between Lago Agrio and Tena, Coca, and Baeza several times a day. You can also fly to Lago Agrio from Quitoon TAME or Aerogal.
There are few sites of interest in Lago Agrio itself. As mentioned above, most visitors just stop through here for as short a time as possible, before continuing on to organized jungle tours in Cuyabeno Reserve and Limoncocha Biological Reserve.
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.’
Sep 7, 2023 · Has anyone been up to Lago lately (the last few months or so)? Is it worthwhile as a destination in its own right, not to go to a lodge or on a tour, but just to see it? I'll be up in an around Tena and Coca and am wondering if I should head up there, too, just for a look-see.
Lago Agrio or Nueva Loja is a city in the Amazon region of Ecuador. It is the capital of the province of Sucumbios and was founded in the 1960s as a base camp by Texaco. This city is the entrance to the southern part of the Ecuadorian Amazonas Jungle.
It is the habitat of the river croaker, small mouth, river catfish, guanchiche, piranha, rays, water turtles and a large number of invertebrates that are part of the plankton. It is bathed by countless rivers in which the Aguarico River, El Eno, El Conejo, El Dureno, El Teteye, etc. stand out.
Jun 11, 2019 · Lago Agrio or Nueva Loja is a city in the Amazon region of Ecuador. It is the capital of the province of Sucumbios and was founded in the 1960s as a base camp by Texaco. This city is the entrance to the southern part of the Ecuadorian Amazonas Jungle
