Orellana Province

Orellana Province Provincia de Orellana
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Location in Ecuador
Basic data
Capital	Puerto Francisco de Orellana
population	103.032 (2005,)
- Share in Ecuador	0.8%
- Rank in Ecuador	Rank 18 out of 22
- density	5 inhabitants per km²
surface	21,691 km²
- Share in Ecuador	8.5%
- Rank in Ecuador	Rank 3 of 22
License Plate	Q
Set up	1998
prefect	Alberto Zambrano
Governor	Elisa Monar
Seats in the National Congress	2 of 100
structure	4 cantons
ISO 3166-2	EC-D
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Orellana is a province of the Republic of Ecuador . It lies in the east of the Ecuadorian part of the Amazon basin and has about 95,000 inhabitants on an area of ​​21,700 km². The capital is Puerto Francisco de Orellana , also known as El Coca, after the Coca River on which it lies.

The province of Orellana is one of the youngest provinces in Ecuador. It was set up in 1998 or spun off from the province of Napo , the eastern part of which it was previously. The name of the province comes from the conquistador and explorer Francisco de Orellana , who on the Gonzalo Pizarro expedition (1540) in search of El Dorado was the first to travel the Amazon (from the Coca and Napo ) to the mouth.

The province's most important natural resources are petroleum and tropical timber . Until petroleum was discovered in the areas of today's province in the second half of the 20th century, these were an area barely penetrated by state violence, in which almost exclusively indigenous peoples such as the Huaorani , the Shuar and the so-called Amazonian Kichwa lived. Even today the infrastructure is poorly developed, and many places can only be reached by river or plane. The oil spill in the northern Amazon lowlands of Ecuador , which began in 1967 and in which the Texaco company was particularly involved, also affected parts of the Orellana province; especially north of El Coca.

The province is divided into four cantons. These are (in chronological order of their establishment):

flag Canton set up Bev. 2010 Area km² main place Aguarico 1945 4,847 11,358 Nuevo Rocafuerte Orellana 1968 72,795 6,995 Puerto Francisco de Orellana La Joya de los Sachas 1988 37,591 1,195 La Joya de los Sachas Loreto 1992 21,163 2.127 Loreto Orellana Province 1998 136,396 21,675 Puerto Francisco de Orellana

Cantons of Orellana

Remarks

1. ^ INEC, Población total y tasas brutas de natalidad, mortalidad general, mortalidad infantil y materna según regiones y provincias de residencia habitual, año 2005 ( memento of June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 13, 2007.
2. ↑ Zambrano was elected to the provincial council for the PRIAN , but had resigned from this party six months before taking office as prefect. He was elected on March 7, 2008 by the provincial council after it had decided 3-2 to remove his predecessor Guadalupe Llori ( Pachakutik ) from office because she had stayed away from many meetings. Llori was arrested on 7 December 2007 in connection with a strike in Dayuma , an oil- producing region in Orellana, on suspicion of sabotage and terrorism. On March 14, 2008, she was pardoned by the Constituent Assembly , which performed parliamentary functions, for lack of evidence. However, she was detained in Quito until the end of September 2008, as the responsible Chief Justice of Orellana Province had not yet ordered her release. See El reemplazo de Llori dice que asume por ley  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , El Universo , March 9, 2008  

Coordinates: 0 ° 47 ′  S , 76 ° 29 ′  W