The Yasuni National Park (PNY) is located in the central east of the Amazon region and is the largest protected area in continental Ecuador. It houses an important natural and cultural heritage.
The Waorani, Kichwa, Shuar indigenous nationalities and the Tagaeri and Taromenane ethnic groups, who live in voluntary isolation, inhabit its territory and area of influence, and was declared by UNESCO in 1989 as a Biosphere Reserve.
The PNY is located in the central eastern sector of the Ecuadorian Amazon region, in the provinces of Orellana (Aguarico and Coca cantons) and Pastaza (Pastaza canton), between the Napo and Curaray rivers, it is characterized by having quite warm temperatures with an average from 24 ° C to 27 ° C for all months, rainfall is high, approximately 3,200mm per year and relative humidity of 80% and 94% throughout the year.
The entire protected area is formed by tropical rainforest and forests flooded by rivers of sewage, white water, swamps and lagoons.
Although most tourists arrive in Coca only as a boarding port to the Amazonian lodges of Yasuni National Park, it can be said that the city has a quite impressive tourist infrastructure. Coca is not a place where visitors spend a lot of time, but despite that, it does have hotels, restaurants, bars and nightclubs