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	Campaign Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pastaza province is on the front line of the struggle against oil.
		With the next round of oil block leasing, much of Pastaza province will be subjected to the same assault on the environment that the northern part of the Oriente has endured in recent decades.
		Pastaza in 2001 is not Sucumbios in 1970.
	www.advocacynet.org /cpage_view/amazonoil_opip_17_75.html (738 words)

	Pastaza, Ecuador - Ministry of Tourism, Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pastaza and its surrounding areas were known as the “Cinnamon Province” in colonial times.
		Puyo, Pastaza’s capital, is known its developed tourist infrastructure, hospitable citizens, and tasty cuisine.
		Pastaza has several delicacies such as fish and palm heart maytos, guanta, guatusa, and danta stew, sancocho,empanadas, and yucca bread.
	www.vivecuador.com /html2/eng/pastaza_en.htm (276 words)

	EarthRights International - More News / Militarization Continues in Pastaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Those in Pastaza believe that all the operations are linked to the “Patriot Plan,” implemented along the Ecuador/Colombia border by Colombia, in whose war the Ecuadoran army is directly involved.
		The process of militarization in Pastaza’s indigenous territories has increased aggressively in the last few months, and it is evident that it is related to the aggressive oil politics in the province undertaken by Colonel Lucio Gutierrez, without respect for the indigenous communities’ rights.
		In response to this situation, Pastaza’s indigenous communities are organizing immediate denunciation actions at the national and international level, and demanding investigations and penalties for the people responsible for these grave acts, in order delay the military advance that threatens to destroy the peace and collective rights of Pastaza’s Kichwa people.
	www.earthrights.org /news/Yanayaku.shtml (781 words)

	Global Response History - Environmental Action & Education
		According to oficial declarations from the Comander of the Selva Pastaza brigade the objective of this military operation was to “capture, neutralize and annihilate armed elements” supposedly detected in the area.
		It is worrying that on the one hand the military high comand publicly proclaims respect for the Constitution and democracy and on the other hand is chasing and threatening the lives of the communities in open violation of the collective rights of indigenous people stated in the Constitution and the International Workers Organizations agreement 169.
		Octavio Romero) and the Comands of the Fourth Amazonian Division (Gral Gonzalo Tapia) and of the 17th Brigade of the Selva of Pastaza (Crnl.
	www.globalresponse.org /history.php?record=1920 (835 words)

	Región Amazónica » Pastaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pastaza es la provincia más grande de Ecuador y la más rica en biodiversidad.
		Con relación a otras provincias orientales Pastaza tiene la menor población, la cual se encuentra concentrada en los sectores urbanos y de colonización como Shell, Mera y el Puyo; mientras la zona rural tiende a despoblarse.
		Pastaza tiene una vocación natural para el desarrollo de la Actividad Turística debido a los variados atractivos naturales y culturales que posee; además de su cercanía con la sierra ecuatoriana (Quito a cinco horas, Ambato a dos horas y a tan solo una de Baños, uno de los principales centros turísticos del país).
	www.ecuaventura.com /oriente.php?opcion=datos&provincia=18 (1392 words)

	Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Their representative body OPIP (the Organization of Indigenous Peoples of Pastaza) is also one of the most well-organized advocacy groups in Pastaza province.
		Pastaza lies in the south-central part of the Oriente, and it is shaping up to be the next battleground.
		Pastaza in 2002 is not Sucumbios in 1970, and the brutal destruction caused by Texaco is unlikely to be repeated today in the central and southern provinces of the Oriente.
	www.advocacynet.org /news_view/news_194.html (3853 words)

	WWF International Feature Article
		Most of his collection comes from Pastaza valley and mountains that surround it — home to one of the highest concentrations of endemic orchids on the planet.
		The Pastaza River, a tributary of the Amazon River, has carved the deepest, straightest valley in the eastern Andes, running through the mountains across Ecuador and Peru and on to the Brazilian rainforest.
		The Pastaza valley's bats are threatened by unregulated activities, and some 30 per cent of the valley's bird species are sensitive to habitat disturbance.
	www.panda.org.za /print.php?id=181 (1168 words)

	EarthRights International - More News / AMIS Declaration in the face of Yanayaku Attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		According to official declarations from the Commander of the Selva Pastaza Brigade, the objective of this military operation was to “capture, neutralize and annihilate armed elements” supposedly detected in the area.
		On the other hand, the process of militarization of indigenous territories of Pastaza, including Sarayaku, has increased in intensity of violence and it is evident that it subscribes to the oil policies launched by Col. Lucio Gutierrez in the province of Pastaza.
		It is worrying that on the one hand the military high command publicly proclaims respect for the Constitution and democracy and on the other hand is chasing and threatening the lives of the communities in open violation of the collective rights of indigenous people stated in the Constitution and the International Workers Organizations agreement 169.
	www.earthrights.org /news/AMISDeclaration.shtml (804 words)

	Oil Companies Threaten Indian Communities and Amazon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is taking place sespite the fact that the Ecuadorian government signed an agreement with OPIP (the Organization of Indian People of Pastaza) last year which stated that all Indian lands in the Sarayacu Region would be demarcated and legalized, and all work being done by oil companies would cease.
		The drilling is being done on Moretecocha Indian lands, near Sarayacu, in the Province of Pastaza, in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
		Pastaza is the most intact Amazon rainforest left in Ecuador.
	abyayala.nativeweb.org /ecuador/amazon/oil/amazon1.html (469 words)

	Ecuador Pastaza Corridor Gift to the Earth ecuador Pastaza River
		In other word, the Pastaza River Valley might well be a natural corridor, an important "biological dispersion zone" connecting the parks and not, as some had previously assumed, a natural barrier to dispersal.
		Situated between Sangay and Llanganates national parks, between the settlements of Río Verde and Shell, the Pastaza River Corridor is comprised of a total of 41,517 hectares, 5,657 of which are cultivated or settled.
		Through these studies the Pastaza River Valley was determined to be a true biological corridor and not a barrier to dispersal.
	www.lunaruntun.com /english/surroundings_pastaza.htm (797 words)

	WWF - Treasures in the Ecuadorian Andes
		Ecuador is a hotspot for plants, and the Pastaza valley is the heartland of this diversity.
		A Gift to the Earth is a public celebration by WWF of a conservation action by a government, a company, or an individual which is both a demonstration of environmental leadership and a globally significant contribution to the protection of the living world.
		The Sangay-Llanganates ecological corridor in the Pastaza valley was recognized as a Gift to the Earth on 16 December 2002.
	panda.org /news_facts/newsroom/features/news.cfm?uNewsID=6221 (1164 words)

	Ecuador 1998 Bird List
		Most were on mudflats on the Rio Pastaza, with a couple appearing briefly on the lake in front of the lodge at Kapawi.
		All were along the Rio Pastaza except one that flew in to the small lake near Kapawi Lodge.
		All were seen along the edges of the Rio Pastaza at Kapawi, with one along the smaller river leading to the lodge boat dock.
	www.amazilia.net /images/Travel/Ecuador1997/Ecuador1997birds.htm (4985 words)

	Turismo en Pastaza Ecuador CODESO
		La provincia Pastaza tiene 60.000 habitantes, 30.000 urbanos y 30.000 rurales.
		Pastaza tiene una superficie de casi 30.000 kilómetros quadrados, divididos en 4 cantones.
		La provincia de Pastaza tiene diferentes recursos naturales, e invita a ser visitada en sus sitios más hermosas.
	www.galapagos-islas.com /TurismoPastaza.html (80 words)

	Pastaza Ecuador - Ministerio de Turismo - Ecuador
		Pastaza Ecuador - Ministerio de Turismo - Ecuador
		La zona de Pastaza y sus alrededores fue conocida en la época de la Colonia como la provincia de La Canela.
		Varias delicias con productos de la zona se cocinan en Pastaza.
	www.vivecuador.com /html2/esp/pastaza_es.htm (336 words)

	Campaign Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Zapara of Ecuador live in central Pastaza province between the Conambo and Pindoyacu rivers, occupying 54,000 hectares of land surrounded by Quichua, Achuar, and Shuar communities.
		But in fact, there remain five remote Zapara villages in Pastaza province, and in recent years the Zapara, numbering around 200, have organized to fight against all odds for their survival.
		Today, the priorities of ANAZPPA are to protect their culture (including documenting and reviving their language), to reunite with their Peruvian relatives, and to protect their territory.
	www.advocacynet.org /cpage_view/amazonoil_anazppa_17_68.html (830 words)

	Amazon Culture Indigenous Groups - Ministry of Tourism - Ecuador
		In Pastaza, near the city of Puyo, lies the Hola Vida Reserve, from which it is possible to reach the Quichuas’ sacred waterfall.
		Further on, in the province of Pastaza, is the Atacapi-Papangu Project.
		The Shuar and Achuar are also present in the provinces of Morona-Santiago and Pastaza.
	www.vivecuador.com /html2/eng/amazon_culture.htm (647 words)

	2005 Population Figures for Pastaza, Ecuador (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Its principal rivers are the Napo and Pastaza Rivers.
		...rivers: the Putumayo, the Napo, and the Pastaza.
		28,389 for Pastaza, Ecuador is based on a number of factors and sources.
	travel.synabu.com /cities/P/Pastaza,_Ecuador.html (318 words)

	Project Tsuraku - Jatun Sacha Foundation :: Ecuador
		The main objective of this project is to define the financial and socioeconomic components needed to develop alternative projects for the management of natural resources and services in the Tsuraku, Pastaza, Ecuador region.
		The project is being developed in the Tsuraku region, within the territory of the targeted groups: Simón Bolívar and Sarayacu of the Pastaza Canton.
		The area of study is limited to the north by the Mushullaeta, Pre-Coop Sucre and Chico Copotaza populations, to the west by the Pastaza River, and to the East and South by the Copotaza River.
	www.jatunsacha.org /ingles/tsuraku.htm (311 words)

	College of Liberal Arts, Washington State University
		Washington State University President V. Lane Rawlins and Bartolo Marnari Ushigua, president of the Association of the Zapara Nation of Pastaza Province (ANAZPPA), have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) that pledges university support for the preservation of the Zapara culture and preservation of the environment in Pastaza Province.
		Pastaza Province is part of the Amazon rain forest of Ecuador and is located between Rio Conambo and Rio Pindoyacu, just north of disputed territory, which Ecuador lost to Peru in 1941.
		Washington State University anthropology professor John Patton is an expert on the Zapara and the Pastaza Province.
	libarts.wsu.edu /college/news/2003/06/03-zapara.html (346 words)

	Endangered Sacred Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They were once one of the largest Indigenous groups of that vast region, with their traditional territories extending far into what is now known as the Pastaza region of Ecuador, and in adjacent areas of Peru.
		The treatment of the Zapara was especially harsh because of their adamant refusal to accept the imposition of Christianity or any other outside religion, a position they maintain as strongly today, as they did a hundred years ago.
		Today, only about twenty families who live in the Pastaza province, along with an unknown number that reside in Peru, are all that remain of the Zapara peoples, which once consisted of a variety of ethnic groups, with diverse languages and cultural traditions.
	www.7genfund.org /sovereignty_2v2.html (1890 words)

	Completed Projects & Ideas
		Knit with a strand of Cascade Pastaza and a strand of handspun painted brushed mohair.
		Stranded Brushed Mohair with Cascade 220, Boucles, Pastaza or Lofty Mohair.
		Strand of Cascade Pastaza and strand of Brushed mohair.
	www.fiber2yarn.com /info/hats.htm (436 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:QUP
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		Northern jungle, Anatico Lake, Pastaza and Huasaga rivers, and along the Urituyacu.
		Distinct from Northern Pastaza Quechua of Peru and Ecuador.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=QUP (86 words)

	Epipedobates Zaparo at www.poison-frogs.com
		About fourteen syntypes of several locations in the drainage of the Rio Pastaza and the Rio Napo in Ecuador, collected by G. Ords, are located in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, USA.
		The holotype was collected in the surroundings of Canelos, to the south-east of Puyo, in the river basin of the Rio Pastaza in Ecuador.
		Other syntypes have been collected in Sarayacu, further down stream on the Rio Pastaza and another series of syntypes from the Orcds collection from the U.S. Natural History Museum collected in the river basin of the Rio Pastaza in Ecuador.
	www.poison-frogs.nl /e020369.html (1083 words)

	Dendrobates Ventrimaculatus at www.poison-frogs.com
		In Sarayacu in Pastaza province, about fifty kilometres south-east from Puyo in the upper river basin of the Rio Pastaza where there is a town with the same name (Jan Verkade, pers.
		Silverstone (1975: 33-34) describes the colour pattern of the types as "the striped pattern as is found with specimens from the larger part of the Amazon basin and French Guyana".
		At this moment many known populations from the Amazon low land in Colombia (La Chorrera), Ecuador, Peru (Colonia, Hameau Kuiru, Yuyapichis, and the 'red quinq') and Brazil (Salto de Girao) and the known populations in our hobby from French Guyana (Kaw, Cacao, Montsinery, Marianne polder) are included.
	www.poison-frogs.nl /e020337.html (1090 words)

	International Expeditions : Signature Expeditions : Galapagos
		After breakfast, we travel by boat on the Pastaza River and begin a moderate hike to the Ishpingo River where we have lunch.
		Later we enjoy an excursion in canoes along the Ishpingo River, spotting for a variety of birds including Horned Screamer, Cuvier’s Toucan, macaws and other parrots, as well as a variety of colorful tanagers.
		After breakfast we take a canoe ride on the Pastaza River to a trail that leads to Kusutkau.
	www.ietravel.com /our_journeys/galapagos_10day/amazonrainforest10_extension.html (466 words)

	Ecuador/ Indian March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the Pastaza (OPIP), an Indian confederation, is organizing over 148 communities from the Pastaza Province.
		They believe by joining together in what is one of the largest efforts they have ever undertaken they will have the political leverage necessary to force the government to address their land rights.
		The urgency of recognition of land title is in response to the encroachment of oil companies that are now moving into the 5 million acre Central Ecuadorian Amazon region of Pastaza.
	abyayala.nativeweb.org /ecuador/quichua_am/apr92_6.html (355 words)

	Wildlife News: World Wildlife Fund sends University of Kent students up the Amazon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Pastaza people are proud of their culture and want to maintain their traditions.
		For the Pastaza, hunting, fishing and gathering is the equivalent of going to Sainsbury’s; collecting timber, vines and palm from the forest is like going to BandQ; if they want to travel, a canoe is built.
		He says of the WWF funding, ‘the project in the Rio Pastaza is a perfect opportunity to combine our research and conservation efforts with our undergraduate teaching.
	www.naturalworldtours.co.uk /articles2003/march/march1503g.htm (558 words)

	EarthRights International - More News / Militarización Sigue en Pastaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		La presencia sorpresiva del ejercito causo preocupación en las comunidades fronterizas pastaza, y particularmente a la comunidad de Yanayaku, a donde ese mismo día llegaron 80 militares acusando a la comunidad de ser “el eje de apoyo logístico” a los supuestos grupos subversivos.
		Conociendo esta delicada situación una comisión de la Organización de los pueblos indígenas de pastaza encabezada por su presidente Olmedo Cuji, viajo a Yanayaku el día 20 de abril para verificar los hechos y precautelar la integridad de las comunidades.
		Realizar una Asamblea de la organización de los pueblos indígenas de pastaza en la comunidad de yanayaku para solidarizarse con sus habitantes y adoptar acciones encaminadas a precautelar los derechos a la vida y a la paz del pueblo kichwa de pastaza, con presencia de la CONAIE.
	www.earthrights.org /news/Yanayakuspanish.shtml (662 words)

	The Daily Orange
		News reports said the commission - created by the Pastaza governor, the attorney general, and police - had so far been unable to reach the remote community of Tiguino, where the killings allegedly occurred, because of bad weather and, therefore, have been unable to confirm the deaths.
		The head of the Hoaorani Nation of the Ecuadorean Amazon, Armando Boya, informed Pastaza police early this week about the massacre, in which members of his tribe killed women, children and elderly people in the Tagueri tribe Monday.
		Hoaorani Indian representatives had travelled to Quito to ask President Lucio Gutierrez to stop wood harvesting in Pastaza because it was hurting the environment and relations between Indian tribes.
	www.dailyorange.com /main.cfm/include/smdetail/synid/88285.html (260 words)

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