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     • The Lago Agrio oil field is an oil -rich area near the city of Nueva Loja in the province of Sucumbíos, Ecuador. It is located in the Western Oriente Basin.
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   Where is Lago Agrio located?

   • Located in the province of Sucumbíos, Lago Agrio’s main tourist draw is its proximity to Cuyabeno Reserve and Limoncocha Biological Reserve. Most visitors only spend a few hours in Lago Agrio on their way from Quito to jungle excursions they have booked in advance.

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   Where is the Lago Agrio oil field located?

   • The Lago Agrio oil field is located in the province of Sucumbíos, near the city of Nueva Loja, Ecuador. It is situated in the Western Oriente Basin. The site's hydrocarbon-bearing formations are the Cretaceous Napo and Hollin formations, where oil was discovered in the 1960s.

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   What does Lago Agrio mean?

   • 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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   Why is Nueva Loja called Lago Agrio?

   • In the 1960s, Nueva Loja mushroomed in size and importance, as a base camp for the US oil company Texaco. 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.

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   Why is Lago Agrio called Bitter Lake?

   • This town pulses with the life of the oil industry, a chaotic market, dusty streets, thick traffic and gritty bars. 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.

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   Why is Lago Agrio a bad place to live?

   • Despite – or perhaps because of – Lago Agrio’s industrial importance today, its ecology has been terribly mismanaged, mostly at the hands of foreign oil companies. 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).

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3. ecuadorexplorer.com › html › lago_agrioLago Agrio (Nueva Loja), Ecuador - History, Climate, What to Do

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   Located in the province of Sucumbíos, Lago Agrio’s main tourist draw is its proximity to Cuyabeno Reserve and Limoncocha Biological Reserve. Most visitors only spend a few hours in Lago Agrio on their way from Quito to jungle excursions they have booked in advance.

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   Lago Agrio. Ecuador, South America. This town pulses with the life of the oil industry, a chaotic market, dusty streets, thick traffic and gritty bars. The first oil workers nicknamed Lago Agrio ‘bitter lake,’ after Sour Lake, Texas, the former home of Texaco, which pioneered local drilling.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Nueva_LojaNueva Loja - Wikipedia

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   Nueva Loja [1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnwe.βa ˈlo.xa]), also known as Lago Agrio, is the capital of the province of Sucumbíos in Ecuador. It was founded in the 1960s as a base camp of Texaco. The official population as of the 2022 census is 55,627. [2]

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Lago_Agrio_oil_fieldLago Agrio oil field - Wikipedia

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   The Lago Agrio oil field is an oil-rich area near the city of Nueva Loja in the province of Sucumbíos, Ecuador. It is located in the Western Oriente Basin. The site's hydrocarbon-bearing formations are the Cretaceous Napo and Hollin formations. [1] [2] Oil was discovered in the area in 1960s.

7. www.greenforestecolodge.com › blog_travel › how-toHow to get to Lago Agrio from Quito by Bus? | Cuyabeno Amazon ...

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   Address 1: Hostal La Guayunga - Quito / Hora 11:30 pm. Address 2: Mariscal (Blue House Hostel) / Departure: 11:00 pm. Address 3: Secret Garden Quito / Departure : 11:30 pm. Price: 20 USD per person. Destination Point: Magic Paradise (Lago Agrio) is our meeting point.

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   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.

9. www.planetandes.com › nueva-loja-lago-agrioNueva Loja - Lago Agrio, Ecuador - Places to go, Things to do ...

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   Nueva Loja is a small town in the Amazon of Ecuador. Known as Lago Agrío. Nueva Loja is the capital of Sucumbíos Province. Tourists visit this city due to its proximity to the reserves Cuyabeno and Limoncocha. Lago Agrío is also a place to start a jungle tour.