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provide a needed lunch stop en route. Puyo is often overlooked as a
destination, though it does offer options for visiting secondary forest
and nearby community-based tourism efforts, as well as trips deep
into the Río Pastaza region. See
Tours & Tour Operators
, page 368.
Macas
Travel into the far southern expanses of the Oriente requires heading
down towardMacas by plane or by road fromPuyo. Macas is themain
population and commercial center in the southern Oriente, though it
was founded initially as a missionary outpost. The least-explored re-
gion in the upper Amazon Basin lies to the east of Macas and offers a
rich mix of colonial history and indigenous rainforest life. It takes al-
most a day to reach Macas by road from Puyo. But beautiful scenery,
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