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Nueva Loja

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official_nameNueva Loja
image_skylineCollage Nueva Loja.png
image_captionFrom top, left to right: February 12 Street, Monument to the Worker, New Loja Ecological Park, Simon Bolivar Park, Monument to the Heroes of Cenepa, Our Lady of the Swan Cathedral, Aguarico River Bridge and New Loja Recreational Park
image_flagBandera Lago Agrio.svg
settlement_typeCity
total_typeCity
pushpin_mapEcuador
pushpin_label_positionleft
coordinates
coordinates_footnotes
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_name
subdivision_type1Province
subdivision_name1Sucumbíos
subdivision_type2Canton
subdivision_name2Lago Agrio
established_titleFounded
established_dateMay 5, 1971
area_total_km221.65
elevation_m297
population_footnotes
population_total55627
population_as_of2022 census
population_density_km2auto
population_demonymNeolojano, -a
area_code(+593) 06
blank_nameClimate
blank_infoAf
websitewww.lagoagrio.gob.ec

Nueva Loja (), 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.

Overview

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 was originally named after the town of Sour Lake, Texas by Texaco when the company established the oil-producing settlement. Lago Agrio is Spanish for "Sour Lake". The official name of the Ecuadorian town is Nueva Loja. Its current name originates from the fact that the first colonizers came from the Southern Province of Loja.

The area around the city, the Lago Agrio oil field, 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. On February 14, 2011, a judge in Lago Agrio ruled that Chevron, now owner of Texaco, had to pay $9 billion in environmental damages for polluting the rainforest.

In 2017, the Superior Court of Justice of Brasil rejected enforcement of the 2013 Ecuadorian Supreme Court award, with the Prosecutor concluding that verdict was “issued in an irregular manner, especially under deplorable acts of corruption.”

In 2018 the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled in favor of Chevron and said the 2013 Ecuador Supreme Court case was obtained "through fraud, bribery and corruption."

Manchester United Right Back Antonio Valencia was born in Nueva Loja.

Air transport

The city is served by Lago Agrio Airport, with daily flights from/to Quito.

Climate

Nueva Loja has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

Notable residents

  • Leonela Moncayo, human rights activist.

References

References

  1. {{GEOnet2. 32FA88399FEB3774E0440003BA962ED3. Nueva Loja, Sucumbios, Ecuador. Retrieved 7 November 2009.
  2. [https://www.citypopulation.de/en/ecuador/towns/sucumb%C3%ADos/210150__nueva_loja/ Citypopulation.de]
  3. (14 February 2011). "Ecuador Judge Orders Chevron to Pay $9 Billion". The New York Times.
  4. (5 April 2019). "The Supreme Court of Canada Dismisses Donziger's Ecuador Petition to Appeal". [[Forbes]].
  5. (7 September 2018). "International tribunal rules in favor of Chevron in Ecuador case". Reuters.
  6. Alarcón, Isabel. (12 August 2024). "El tour amazónico que muestra las cicatrices del petróleo en Ecuador". Dialogue Earth.
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