Yasuni National Park
Yasuni National Park () is in Ecuador with an area of 9,823 km2 between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in Napo and Pastaza Provinces in Amazonian Ecuador. The national park lies within the Napo moist forests ecoregion and is primarily rain forest. The park is about 250 km from Quito and was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1989. It is within the claimed ancestral territory of the Huaorani indigenous people. Yasuni is also home to two uncontacted indigenous tribes, the Tagaeri and the Taromenane. Many indigenous people use the riverways within the park as a main mode of travel. Several waterways in the area are tributaries that lead into the Amazon River, including blackwater rivers high in tannins boasting vastly different floral composition than the main riverways. The spine-covered palm, "Bactris" "riparia," and aquatic plant "Montrichardia linifera" typically line the edges of these slow moving rivers, often referred to as Igapós.
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Ecuador
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Napo
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national park
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Biosphere Reserve
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uncontacted indigenous tribes
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Taromenane
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Bactris
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Montrichardia
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Q1476287
Igapó
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Q1641326
Yasuni National Park
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