Puyo travel guide

Puyo is the capital of Pastaza, a province in Ecuador. It is also the most important city in the province. Puyo is located by the Puyo River, a tributary of the Pastaza River, which feeds into the Amazon in Peru.
Puyo was founded in 1899. It is located betweenBaños, and the Amazonian cities of Tena and Macas. "El Puyo" is a beautiful small city (with a small-town feel) in the east of central Ecuador, and capital of the province of Pastaza. It is the commercial, cultural and political capital of the region. The city is connected by road with Ambato and from there to the central urban area of the country. It also has a small airport situated about ten kilometers to the north. Population of the province is 45,825 inhabitants (year 2000). Puyo has a remarkable climate, with very little seasonal changes: Daytime temps in the 70s and low 80s, with sun and generally short periods of heavy rain daily, year-round.
The populated part of the province of Pastaza is located in and around El Puyo, reduced to a small zone: Pastaza extends out towards the vast plain of the east. The territory starts in the hills of the eastern Cordillera, below the town of Baños, with impressive landscapes of mountains, rivers and plains. There are not many high points. One of them is Habitahua, 1,820 meters above sea level. The climate in the zone is hot and humid. Its average temperature is between 18 and 24 °C, and the area away from the roads is almost all virgin rainforest. (...) more....

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