Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve

The Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve (Reserva de Producción Faunística Cuyabeno) is the second largest reserve of the National System of Protected Areas (SNAP) of Ecuador which includes 59 state owned areas plus an additional dozen of privately owned areas. It is located in the Putumayo Canton in the Sucumbíos Province and in the Aguarico Canton in the Orellana Province. It was decreed on 26 July 1979 as part of the creation of the national protected areas system based on the recommendations of the FAO report on the "National Strategy on the Conservation of Outstanding Wild Areas of Ecuador"., in which about 30 of the Andean and coastal areas to be protected were based on the explorations of Alan Putney and his team, while 9 areas in the Amazon region on the explorations of Dr. Daan Vreugdenhil. Originally it included only the watershed of the Cuyabeno River of about 150,000 hectares. In 1983, after an invasion the upper watershed, the first director of the reserve, Dr. Flavio Coello and Dr. Daan Vreugdenhil proposed a re-definition of park limits by excluding the invaded zones from the park and extending it to the border with Peru, thus growing the park to an area of 590,112 hectares (5, 900 km² or 2, 330 square miles). From east to west, the elevation gently slopes from about 326 meters to slightly under 177 m above sea level. The upper watershed being still close to the Ande

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