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Yagua are an indigenous people in Colombia and northeastern Peru, numbering approximately 6,000. Currently, they live near the Amazon, Napo, Putumayo and Yavari rivers and their tributaries. .
BELEN MARKET
There is a dizzying range of goods, including fresh fruits and vegetables, local delicacies, freshwater fish, bush meat, handicrafts, clothing, medicinal plants, and traditional Amazonian products.
CANOPY WALKWAY
The Canopy Walkway is an experience unequaled in the rainforest! At a height of over 35 meters (115 feet) and extending for 500 meters (one-third of a mile), the Canopy Walkway provides a view of the rainforest from the treetops, the best vantage point for observing Amazon wildlife and vegetation. The suspended walkway is spread between 14 of the area's largest rainforest trees and is one of the longest canopy walkways in the world.
TWO TYPES OF MEDICINE
The ReNuPeRu Ethnobotanical Garden, is a teaching garden for the medicinal and useful rainforest plants of the area. We also spent time at the Yanamono Clinic run by Dr. Linnea Smith. People living along the Amazon River had no local access to modern health care. In recent years, the clinic has been treating roughly 2,000 patients annually, all arriving on foot or by boat.