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The Lago Agrio oil field is an oil-rich area near the city of Nueva Loja in the province of Sucumbíos, Ecuador. It is located in the Western Oriente Basin . The site's hydrocarbon-bearing formations are the Cretaceous Napo and Hollin formations.
Nueva Loja [1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnwe.βa ˈlo.xa]), also known as Lago Agrio, is the capital of the province of Sucumbíos in Ecuador. It was founded in the 1960s as a base camp of Texaco. The official population as of the 2022 census is 55,627. [2]
Introduction. Located in the province of Sucumbíos, Lago Agrio’s main tourist draw is its proximity to Cuyabeno Reserve and Limoncocha Biological Reserve. Most visitors only spend a few hours in Lago Agrio on their way from Quito to jungle excursions they have booked in advance.
Ecuador, South America. This town pulses with the life of the oil industry, a chaotic market, dusty streets, thick traffic and gritty bars. The first oil workers nicknamed Lago Agrio ‘bitter lake,’ after Sour Lake, Texas, the former home of Texaco, which pioneered local drilling.
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The Lago Agrio field is known internationally for the serious ecological problems that oil development has created there, including water pollution, soil contamination, deforestation and cultural upheaval.
El cantón Lago Agrio es una entidad territorial subnacional ecuatoriana, de la Provincia de Sucumbíos. Su cabecera cantonal es la ciudad de Nueva Loja, lugar donde se agrupa gran parte de su población total. Su población según el censo del 2010 es de 91.744 habitantes, de los cuales 46.966 son hombres y 44.778 mujeres.
