GENERAL INFORMATION

• Area: 1’490.932 acres (603.380 ha)
• Date of Creation: July 26, 1979
• Altitude: 656 — 919 ft (200 — 280 m)

Together with Yasuní National Park, the Cuyabeno Reserve is one of the seven Pleistocene refuges in the world that survived the ice age unperturbed. This accounts for its amazingly high diversity and the interrelations between its species, making it a unique sample of an Amazonian ecosystem. There are more than seven rivers and 15 lakes in Cuyabeno, Aguarico the largest river and Zancundococha the biggest lake.