Coca River

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Coca is a river in north-eastern Ecuador. It is a tributary of the Napo, which flows into the Amazon.

The Coca arises from the Quijos and the Consanga, which rises to the south-eastern slopes of Antisana volcano on the border of Ecuador's Amazon basin to the Andean foothills. The sources of Coca therefore lie in the province of Napo, where it flows to the northeast. Then he makes towards the east open the borders of Napo and Sucumbios to the Sucumbios province of Orellana. He flow, inter alia, the rivers Papallacta and Oyacachi to. In Puerto Francisco de Orellana (also El Coca ), the capital of the province of Orellana, opens Coca in the Napo.

The western part of the river is largely in the nature reserve Cayambe - Coca. Here you will also find the highest waterfall in Ecuador, the 131 m high Cascada de San Rafael (also simply called Cascada del Coca, so Coca- waterfall ).

Begun in 1541 Gonzalo Pizarro expedition followed the Cosanga, the Coca and Napo which, to Francisco de Orellana in 1542 finally discovered the Amazon on this path.

Along the Coca there are oil deposits and now also oil-producing plants.

• Amazon River system
• River in South America
• River in Ecuador