Magical, vibrant green and full of energy. This is how you can begin to describe the Yasuní National Park. It is a protected area located in Ecuador that is characterized as one of the most biodiverse spaces on the planet.
Declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1989 by UNESCO, and bordered by the Napo and Curaray rivers, this corner never ceases to amaze anyone who knows it. It has an area of 1,022,736 hectares, and is the largest protected park in the country.
As a National Park it was created in 1979 and shares territory with what is known as the Waorani Ethnic Reserve, created in 1990 with the intention of protecting and ensuring the rights of the indigenous ancestral peoples that inhabit that area.
Likewise, a curious fact is that within the protected area live the last peoples in voluntary isolation of Ecuador, that is, they do not maintain contact with Western cultures, called Tagaeri and Taromenane.
It has more than 2,000 species of trees and shrubs, 204 species of mammals, 270 species of fish, 610 species of birds, 121 species of reptiles, and 2,274 species of vascular plants. This wide and numerous range of flora and fauna coexist in different ecosystems with unique characteristics on the planet.
There are trees of approximately 1.5 meters in diameter that brush the clouds with 50 meters of height. This jungle space is considered a fundamental part of what is called the ‘lung of the planet’, since due to its amount of biodiversity it stands out as the spaces of the Amazon with the capacity to absorb the carbon that is produced on earth. That is, it converts the CO2 that is produced daily into pure oxygen.
The sounds of cooing insects, the colorful sunset and the thick humidity make this place a sanctuary to reconnect with mother earth. Undoubtedly, it is a place that can be listed as one of the destinations that should not be missed in Ecuador. For this, there are two scientific stations called Estación Yasuní and Estación Tiputini dedicated to the investigation and conservation of the area that prepare visits for all those interested in knowing the tropical forest.
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