On the outskirts of Ecuador’s rainforest, Baños is the gateway to Ruta de las Cascadas, an itinerary that takes in several waterfalls ... be spotted in the Amazon River basin, swinging in ...

Visit the Achuar, a tribe of 6,000 indigenous people who still live traditionally in small Amazon communities along ... participants explore the world’s largest river system; search for toucans ...

See All Key Ideas On February 2, something strange happened in Cayambe Coca Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The emblematic San Rafael waterfall, located on the Coca River between the provinces of ...

Its crags conceal vast tumbling waterfalls, rushing river rapids, and views over the ... Andean highlands and verdant valleys ...

The San Rafael waterfall in Ecuador ... sinkhole that opened beneath the river that once fed the falls. Located in Cayambe Coca Park, part of the Ecuadorian Amazon near the border with Colombia ...

Languages: English, Spanish Early in February, the nearly-500-foot-high San Rafael Waterfall ... route of the Coca River at the intersection of the Andes Mountains and the Amazon Basin.

It was once the tallest waterfall in Ecuador, plummeting from a height ... it continued another 400 miles before meeting with the Amazon River. Just upstream of the lava dam, a sinkhole formed ...

Ecuador. Electricity cuts across an entire nation. A capital rationing water. A mayor encouraging people to shower together to save precious drops. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon ...