Nuevo_Rocafuerte

Nuevo Rocafuerte

Nuevo Rocafuerte

Town in Orellana, Ecuador

Nuevo Rocafuerte is a town in Ecuador. The capital of Aguarico Canton in Orellana Province, it was founded in 1942 as a result of a battle which displaced the inhabitants of the original settlement and subsequent border agreements which made this location a key border spot on the border with Peru.

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It is the birthplace of 46th Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno.[2]

Climate

Nuevo Rocafuerte has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy rainfall year-round.

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    Citypopulation.de Population and area of Nuevo Rocafuerte
  2. [2]
    "Elecciones en Ecuador: quién es Lenín Moreno, el rostro conciliador que sucederá a Rafael Correa". Clarín (in Spanish). 3 April 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2018. Nació allí porque sus padres -profesores- decidieron trabajar en Nuevo Rocafuerte, que aún hoy no tiene conexión por carretera. Un error en la inscripción en el Registro Civil hizo que su segundo nombre fuera Boltaire, en vez de Voltaire. "Papá era de ideas socialistas y mamá de ideas liberales. A ellos les gustaba mucho leer; a papá, Lenín; y a mamá, Voltaire", explicó.
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    "Climate: Nuevo Rocafuerte". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
  • Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952) p. 1354.

0.933333°S 75.4°W / -0.933333; -75.4

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