CLIMATE

The climate in general in almost the whole region is Warm and Humid  because the direct influence of the Alisios winds.
In the High East we highlight:
This altitude refers above the 500 meters, the half temperature doesn't surpass the 25ºC, and a constant humidity that is above 90% during some months, we will mention the   following:
Tena.............................23.3ºC………………………………………..3,880mm.
Pastaza(Shell-Mera)………21.5ºC……………………………….4,292mm.

In the Low East, their stockings stay above the 25ºC. and with inferior rains to the declines, but without dryseason . The relative humidity passes over the 80%. Superior constant rains over 1,500mm.
The rains fall during the whole year, although they are more plentiful and more torrential between JANUARY and JULY, originating the grown ones and floods of the rivers.

 FLORA

The humid and hot climate, with weak oscillations, the wealth of the alluviums deposited by the rivers and the Humus fertilizer, they are three favorable elements to the nonpareil exuberance and the splendid strength that characterize the vegetation of the Amazon Valley.
The excess of humidity and the same constitution of the floor make that the roots of any vegetable never deepen a lot; but they grow with giants' corpulence and they acquire a size greatness that they are not in ANY OTHER PART OF THE WORLD.
In the firm lands and an elevated point, with enough drainage, they are the wood of more duration, resistance and beauty; in the marshy regions for their slower development and for their biggest consistency: the mahogany, guayacán, rubber (castilla panamensis), the cedar and the oak.
Industrial: the rubber, the tagua that covers thousands of hectares, the sarsaparilla, the wild cocoa (theobroma cacao), the vanilla (vanilla planifolia), the barbasco (clibadium sp.) of poisonous roots, with those that crushed, they poison the waters of the rivers to facilitate the fishing, the natema, climbing of the pasifloras that is narcotic powerful; the ayahuasca (banisteriopsis sp.), root whose infusion the sorcerers take it to enter in trance; the guayusa, similar to the mate of the Paraguay, the achiote (bixa orellana), base of the red painting; chontas (bactris gasipaes) for the production of the curious blowpipes indigenous weapons for the hunt. Plants cultivated that serve of the feeding base of colonists and indians, they stands out the yuca(manihot) and the plantane (musa paradisiaca).
The components of the forest belong to a diversity of families tropical lauráceas, moráceas, melastomatáceas, rubiáceas, bignoniáceas, sapotáceas, meliáceas, gutíferas, esturculiáceas, olacáceas, burseráceas, myristicáceas, etc. The list of these species that could be enlarged much more, it gives us a slight idea of THE WEALTH FLORÍSTICA OF THE EAST.

FAUNA

We don't find neither the variety, neither the corpulence of those that populate the Asian and African forests. The biggest representative in the Amazonía is the danta or tapir (tapirus americanus). Their aspect participates of the pig and of the rhinoceros, but it differs of both for its very movable trumpet, its raised is of more than a meter; its skin of very short hair, brown or gray color. It is a truly inoffensive animal, inhabitant of the courses of waters and of the puddles; their food that consists on leaves and fallen fruits of the trees. The danta is solitary and the couples only unite in mating season. Swims very well, is agile, of considerable force and it knows how to swim if it is attacked by their enemy. The meat of the female is good.
Among the rodents: capybara ( hidrochaeris), agutí or guatuza. Among the felines: jaguar (P.onca), tigrillo (L.pardalis), puma (P.concolor),  ant eaters, sahinos or wild pigs.
Among the simians: around ten varieties, small as the chichico chambira, until big as the chorongo.
Birds: granívoras or fructívoras, finding the matured fruits. We could say each tree has their parasite bird. Migratories birds as the paujil (P. jaquacu) or mount turkey.
Ophidian as the boa and the anaconda. Paiche, the biggest fish in the Amazonía, similar to the codfish. Insects like the butterflies, the strangest and beautiful appear from 10am. up to 3pm. flying among the glasses of the trees.

Near to Archidona, JUMANDI caverns are located, the cacique's name that opposed tenacious resistance to the dominance of the Spaniards, gives refuge in that place of calcareous lands of estalactitas and stalagmites.
In the valley of Coangos, TAYOS cavern, name of the birds that have made their surest refuge. It was already known in the XVIII century.