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Aguarico Canton (Orellana, Ecuador)

Cantón Aguarico

image by Jens Pattke, 28 September 2008

Overview
Parishes:

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Overview

The flag of canton of Aguarico (capital: Nuevo Rocafuerte) is horizontally divided divided white-green.
Jens Pattke, 28 September 2008

The canton of Aguarico (4,847 inhabitants in 2010, 11,402.79 sq. km) is located in the province of Orellana, in the wettest area of the Ecuadorian basin of Amazon, on the border with Peru.
In the first Law on Territorial Division of the Republic of Ecuador, adopted on 29 May 1861 by the National Convention, the village of San Miguel del Aguarico was incorporated to the canton of Napo (province of Oriente); in the third Law on Territorial Division, adopted in 1878, the village, renamed Aguarico, was incorporated to the territory of Napo (region Oriental). The Law of 1864 lists Yasuní as part of the territory of Napo. The Law of 1897 lists Tiputini as part of the territory of Napo. In 1911, President Víctor Emilio Estrada divided the province of Oriente into five cantons: Aguarico (Rocafuerte) was the capital of the canton of Napo.
On 19 August 1925 (Official Register No. 33), the region Oriental was divided into the provinces of Napo-Pastaza and Santiago Zamora. The canton of Aguarico was established, as part of the province of Napo-Pastaza and including the villages of La Coca (capital), Loreto, Rocafuerte, Yasuní, and Cononaco. The Oriente Special Law, adopted in 1960, stated in Article 2 § 4 that the canton of Aguarico included the villages of Rocafuerte (capital), Yasuní, Cononaco, and Francisco de Orellana. The Law was amended in 1960, establishing the province of Napo, which included the canton of Aguarico. On 30 April 1969 (Official Register No. 169), Francisco de Orellana was established as a canton, while the parishes of Cuyabeno, Santa María de Huiririma, Capitán Augusto Rivadeneira, and Tiputini were created within the canton of Aguarico; the capital was listed as Nuevo Rocafuerte. The canton of Aguarico was eventually incorporated on 30 July 1998 (Official Register No. 372) to the newly established province of Orellana.
The canton of Aguarico is divided into the two urban parishes of Tiputini and Nuevo Rocafuerte and the four rural parishes of Capitán Augusto Rivadeneira, Santa María de Huiririma, Cononaco, and Yasuní. The capital of the canton was originally located in Nuevo Rocafuerte. On 8 September 2001, Mayor Franklin Cox Sanmiguel (b. 1962 in Nuevo Rocafuerte; elected Mayor in 2000 and re-elected three times since then) was expelled from Nuevo Rocafuerte by revolted villagers, who stormed the municipal buildings, material, and archives. As a retaliation, Cox relocated the next day the cantonal administration to Tiputini; the new capital was confirmed after a referendum organized on 8 June 2008.
The flag of Aguarico is horizontally divided white-green. White is the vivid representation of the purity of the cultural identity of the peaceful inhabitants of the area. Green is a symbol of the immense primary forest of the Amazon basin, of the border, and of the mysticism of a village located at the gate of the Amazon basin.
Source: http://www.aguarico.gob.ec/gadaguarico/index.php/2013-05-17-13-47-14/2013-05-17-14-42-55 - Canton website
Ivan Sache, 28 October 2014