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Indigenous Ecotourism: Río Blanco, Ecuador: Section 1 (4145 words) |
 | Napo Province is one of five provinces in Ecuador's Amazonian region, or Oriente, and shares with its neighboring provinces a tropical climate and biogeography (Figure 2.1). |
| With the exception of the cloud forest along the province's western edge, Napo is characterized by equatorial rainforest typical of the vast Amazon basin (Caviedes and Knapp 1995). |
| Napo Quichua have historically employed a slash-and-mulch system of swidden agriculture, they utilize the land's "lush natural vegetation to release the nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash through decay of leaves, stems, vines and wood, to planted crops, while allowing other forest areas to restore themselves in a cyclical fallow" (Whitten 1981:143). |
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