Qualla: Nuevo Rocafuerte https://qualla.com/nuevo-rocafuerte en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/f/6/nuevo-rocafuerte-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Nuevo Rocafuerte https://qualla.com/nuevo-rocafuerte Nuevo Rocafuerte: Introduction https://qualla.com/nuevo-rocafuerte/ Photo credit Diego Tirira from Quito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. No road reaches Nuevo Rocafuerte. To get there you take a speedboat down the Rio Napo from Coca - an eight-hour trip in a 60-passenger canoe with a canvas roof, leaving before dawn, stopping for lunch halfway at Panacocha, arriving by early afternoon in a dusty frontier settlement on the Ecuadorian side of the border with Peru. The town itself is not the attraction. Two hotels, a few shops near the boat piers, a handful of eateries serving rice and chicken. What makes people come here is what lies just beyond - Yasuni National Park, one of the last large tracts of truly uncut Amazon rainforest anywhere on Earth.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/f/6/nuevo-rocafuerte-wk/6rf6-nuevo-rocafuerte-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nuevo Rocafuerte: A Border Town at the End of a River https://qualla.com/nuevo-rocafuerte/ Photo credit Diego Tirira from Quito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. Nuevo Rocafuerte sits at 0.93 degrees south of the equator, on the north bank of the Rio Napo just before the river crosses into Peru. The town exists because of that border - it houses Ecuador's immigration post for travelers moving between the two countries by river. Stamping a...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/f/6/nuevo-rocafuerte-wk/6rf6-nuevo-rocafuerte-a-border-town-at-the-end-of-a-river.mp3 0:06 2 full Nuevo Rocafuerte: The Boat to Peru https://qualla.com/nuevo-rocafuerte/ Photo credit Diego Tirira from Quito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. Across the border, the Rio Napo continues into Peru and eventually joins the Amazon near Iquitos. From Nuevo Rocafuerte, travelers arrange passage to Pantoja, the first Peruvian town downstream. Private boats cost ten to twenty-five dollars depending on negotiation and availabili...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/f/6/nuevo-rocafuerte-wk/6rf6-nuevo-rocafuerte-the-boat-to-peru.mp3 0:06 3 full Nuevo Rocafuerte: What the Forest Is Like https://qualla.com/nuevo-rocafuerte/ Photo credit Diego Tirira from Quito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. Yasuni National Park covers nearly one million hectares of western Amazonian rainforest, protecting part of what scientists have identified as one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. A single hectare of Yasuni can contain more tree species than all of North America ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/f/6/nuevo-rocafuerte-wk/6rf6-nuevo-rocafuerte-what-the-forest-is-like.mp3 0:06 4 full Nuevo Rocafuerte: Still Unspoiled, For Now https://qualla.com/nuevo-rocafuerte/ Photo credit Diego Tirira from Quito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. Ecuador's oil industry has expanded aggressively into the Amazon over the past half century, but the area around Nuevo Rocafuerte has remained comparatively unaffected. No major roads have reached it. Commercial logging for tropical hardwoods - a scourge across much of the Amazon...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/r/f/6/nuevo-rocafuerte-wk/6rf6-nuevo-rocafuerte-still-unspoiled-for-now.mp3 0:06 5 full Nuevo Rocafuerte: Two Hotels and a Bakery https://qualla.com/nuevo-rocafuerte/ Photo credit Diego Tirira from Quito, Ecuador, CC BY-SA 2.0. The town itself is small enough to cross in fifteen minutes on foot. Two hotels sit about a hundred meters from the boat piers. Hostal Yurag Wasi offers bright, clean, air-conditioned singles and doubles for twelve to twenty-five dollars per night - the air conditioning being gen...

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