Nueva Loja
Nueva Loja | |
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| Country | Ecuador |
| Province | Sucumbíos |
Nueva Loja (also known as Lago Agrio, after Sour Lake, Texas) is the capital city of Sucumbíos, in Ecuador. It was founded in the 1960s as a base camp of Texaco. It has a population of 103.000.
Nueva Loja is located in central Sucumbíos, in the Amazonian forest, and is one of the most important cities in northeastern Ecuador. Its importance comes from the oil extraction. It is named after Loja as many of the first colonizers came from the Southern Province of Loja.
The area around the city has many ecological problems. The rainforest has been all but obliterated in this region and environmental degradation is severe, with catastrophic oil pollution in some areas.
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