Coca, Ecuador Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

COCA has enjoyed such a boom from oil that in 1998 it was deemed important enough to become the capital of its own province, Orellana . Wresting power from the old provincial capital of Tena, the country's youngest province took up the territory of the lower half of the old Napo province, extending from Coca to Peru. Coca's official name is Puerto Francisco de Orellana, after the first Spaniard to navigate the length of the Amazon , but its nickname – more commonly used – comes from its position on the confluence of the Río Coca with the ríos Napo and Payamino. In the 1970s Coca was a … more »