NAPO WILDLIFE CENTER

From $1425.​00

Located in the heart of the Yasuní National Park, a UNESCO a Biosphere Reserve, the Napo Wildlife Center provides visitors with great opportunities to explore the treasures hidden in the sacred lands of the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador. 

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LA SELVA LODGE

From $1420.00

Located just outside the Yasuní National Park and within the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, La Selva Lodge is perfect for travellers seeking their ideal Amazon experience — whether they are six or sixty. A luxury resort in the heart of the rainforest, everyone will find something to love.

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SACHA LODGE

From $1390.00

The Lodge is so perfectly mixed in the wildlife environment that it is simply another part of the forest. Watch as the giant otters dive and call each other while you eat breakfast and when you return to your room, watch the alligators slide under the platforms.

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SANI LODGE

From $600.00

Sani lodge is located in the intermediate corridor of Yasuní National Park and Cuyabeno Reserve, this place is owned by Sani Isla Kichwa Community and embraces a total of 42,000 hectares (100,000 acres) of virgin rainforest. 

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NAPO CULTURAL CENTER

From $600 USD

The Napo Cultural Center is located in the Yasuní National Park, one of the most diverse ecosystems in the planet with aproximately 980 hectares of Amazon Rainforest. This is one of the main reasons why the Yasuní has became one of the best tourist hotels to visit in the Amazon in Ecuador. 

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YARINA LODGE

From $440 USD

The YARINA Ecological Reserve is strategically located in a forest area that has the greatest biodiversity of micro-habitats in the Lower Napo area, this means that there are more species of animals, birds, flora, reptiles and insects per hectare than on other sides of the shores of the Bajo Napo and its surroundings.

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EDEN AMAZON LODGE

From $690.00

Eden Amazon Lodge is an example of conservation in practice… a grass-root way to conserve this rich and unique ecosystem.  By opening our territory to visitors and our biological and ancestral knowledge, we have become guardians of the forest.  Visit us here at Eden Amazon Lodge and experience our version of Paradise!

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SHIRIPUNO LODGE

From $640.00

We have the advantage of being able to offer you exclusive itineraries in the depths of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Shiripuno Lodge enjoys the privilege of being located in the core of the 16.820 km2 of the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve  (Yasuni National Park & Waorani Ethnic Reserve).  

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About Yasuni

Yasuni, continental Ecuador's largest protected area, is host to impressive levels of biodiversity in the heat of the amazon tropical rain forest and also protects part of the waorani nationality territory. Species records demonstrate this biodiversity for various groups of flora and fauna, species never before registered in any other protected area. Here we find hundreds of tree species, wide rivers that overflow with the torrential rains, and large animals such as the jaguar, anaconda, and harpy eagle. We also find very small animals such as leoncillo or pocket monkey, the smallest primate in the world, and a great variety of reptiles and amphibians that make this park among the most bio-diverse in the world.
The human side of Yasuni is also full of surprises. Dwelling within the park are the tagaeri and taromenane, voluntarily isolated indigenous communities. To protect them and the biodiversity within Yasuni, in 1999 the Tagaeri-Taromenane Intangible Area was created. The National Park Yasuni, the intangible area and the adjacent waorani territory were declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1989. 

Cultural aspects

The whole area between the Napo and Curaray rivers was home to hunter-gatherers, seminomadic people related to the waorani culture and tongue. The waorani lived in that area hunting and gathering fruits and keeping small gardens; in 1969 they were confined and grouped together in an area named a 'protectorate', located on the headwaters of the river Curaray. The clans that did not accept to live in the protectorate or that refused to abandon their way of life formed the beginnings of the Voluntarily Isolated Indigenous Communities. Today, the waorani territory extends into the west side of the park, only covering a small part of their ancient territory, while the north side of Yasuni has been granted to several oil companies. Other people that inhabit this area are the indigenous kichwa people of the Napo River baisin, that are located on the north side of the protected area, and an itinerant population of students and researchers that work in the two scientific stations located within the park and in its buffer zone.

Geography

Napo River, one o​f the main tributaries to the great Amazonas River, flows through the north side of the park, while Curaraylo flows on the southern side. Between both rivers there is a complex network of the rivers Tivacundo, Tiputini, Yasuni, Nashiño, Cononaco, and Tihuino, which make up the lower basin of the Napo. In the midst of this maze of rivers there are more than a million hectares of tropical rainforest that make up this national park.
A birds-eye view of Yasun would reveal its different topographical environments; in the central and western parts of the park there are wide plains with small hills bordered by medium streams and rivers. The nearby river banks and plains get flooded periodically when the rain intensifies, enriching by the nutrients that the rain brings with it. The hills, on the other hand, are never covered with water, and along with other no-flood areas are covered by land forests. 

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