If you’ve dreamed of exploring the wonders of the Amazon rainforest, if you’ve longed to experience firsthand the spectacular sights, sounds and scents of the world’s most diverse ecosystem, we invite you to join us!

Shiripuno Amazon Lodge is a new tourist facility in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Its remote location in the pristine tropical rainforest provides an extraordinary opportunity for birding, natural history excursions and nature explorations. The Lodge, with its comfortable, clean, environmentally harmonious accommodations and dedicated staff, will be your home base for unforgettable expeditions.

The Lodge is adjacent to the Shiripuno Research Center, the most remote biological station in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin, whose mission is to establish studies on Natural History and Tropical Ecology. The Center draws students, researchers and international experts who study birds, mammals, reptiles, insects, plants, ecology, evolution, and medicinal plants, as well as the Amazonian culture, the Huaorani people, and environmental issues.

The Lodge offers visitors a range of natural history excursions led by experienced tour guides. These experts, and guides from the Huaorani community, share their abundant knowledge of the area, creating an educational as well as a pleasurable experience.

Here you will experience adventures in areas rich with wildlife and flora that most people never see in a lifetime. In addition, the amazing variety of birds, animals and reptiles of our reserve have not been exposed to humans—a feature of our pristine wilderness that is preserved through careful management of all our activities.
Our programs provide constant support for the development of research in tropical ecology; they also form a beneficial means of support for local development that is productive, harmonious, and non-invasive.

LOCATION

Shiripuno Amazon Lodge is located in the Pastaza and Orellana provinces, 75 km south from Coca on the Auca Road to the Shiripuno River.

Shiripuno Amazon Lodge waypoints:
S: 01˚ 06' 282"
W: 076˚ 43' 896"

The Shiripuno River is located in the area just south of Yasuni National Park. The river formerly belonged to the national park, but later became part of the Huaorani Reserve. This protected territory, where human impact remains minimal, enjoys the same biodiversity as the national park. Visitors can observe firsthand an abundance of spectacular flora and fauna. Yasuni National Park is a territory of the Huaorani people, and lies on 9,820 square kilometres between the Napo and Curaray rivers in Napo and Pastaza provinces in Amazonian Ecuador, around 250 km from Quito. The park was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1989. .

THE FOREST

The lowland rainforest is the most sophisticated and complex ecosystem on Earth. Nowhere else is the wildlife so magnificent, abundant and mysterious as it is in the rainforest of the Shiripuno River. It requires time, patience and knowledge to appreciate this multifaceted world, and the Lodge is the ideal home base for in-depth explorations.

This is a perfect place to observe nature, replete with huge trees covered with epiphytes and hanging vines, creating such dense foliage that sunlight barely breaks through to the ground.

The immense canopy is home to the rare Harpy Eagle and the magnificent Scarlet Macaw. Dispersed across the area are mammal and parrot salt licks, oxbow lakes and meandering streams full of life.

Muddy trails made by tapirs and peccaries are marked by fresh jaguar tracks. Noisy neotropical otters can be spotted swimming along the rivers searching for fish, while anacondas and caimans bask by the river shore.

Close to the Lodge you can find seven species of monkey, including the Woolly Monkey, which is only found in high quality primary rainforests.

Blue metallic butterflies flit swiftly through the deep green understory with flashes of spectacular color. A Great Tinamou whistles in the background, accompanied by a chorus of tree frogs inviting the night to come. Many snakes begin their nocturnal hunt in amazing camouflage, while myriad katydids munch fresh leaves.