Curaray River
Curaray River | |
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Location | |
Countries | |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Andes |
Mouth | Napo River |
• coordinates | 2°21′39″S 74°5′29″W / 2.36083°S 74.09139°W |
Length | 800 km (500 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 26,775 km2 (10,338 sq mi)[2]
26,704.7 km2 (10,310.7 sq mi) Loreto Region, Peru (near mouth) |
• average | 2,044.372 m3/s (72,196.3 cu ft/s)[3] 2,155 m3/s (76,100 cu ft/s)[2] |
The Curaray River (also called the Ewenguno River or Rio Curaray) is a river in eastern
."Palm Beach"
In 1956, on a
The missionaries had arrived by airplane and chose the sandbar as a suitable place to land, since it was the only land area nearby clear of trees. They built a camp on the sandbar which they nicknamed "Palm Beach". They also built a
After the attack, the Huaorani stripped the plane of its fabric skin. The plane was then abandoned and left to the river. It disappeared, and was not discovered until 1994. Someone was walking along the sandbar and noticed a piece of bare metal sticking out of the sand. It was later discovered to be part of the metal framework of the Piper aircraft flown by Nate Saint. The river had almost completely buried its remains in the sand. The framework of the plane is now displayed in the headquarters of the Mission Aviation Fellowship.
Today, the Huaorani Christian community often use the Curaray River as a site for baptisms. Steve Saint and his children were all baptized there.
The area is posited to be the origin of criollo cacao, the most rare type.[4]
References
- ISBN 92-5-000780-9. Archivedfrom the original on 8 November 2014.
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- ^ a b "Napo-Nanay". Rivers Network. 2020. Archived from the original on 2022-02-21. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
- ^ Washington State University (2018-10-24). "Cacao analysis dates the dawn of domesticated chocolate trees to 3,600 years ago". phys.org. Science X. Retrieved 2024-06-11.