Tena, also known as "San Juan de los rios de Tena", is the capital of the Province of Napo, as well as the largest and most populated city of the same and is crossed by the Tena and Pano rivers, at an altitude of 510 meters above sea level and with a tropical rainy climate of 25 ° C on average. It is called "Capital of the Orchid, the Guayusa and the Cinnamon" or "Capital of the Country of the Cinnamon"...The main activities of the city are commerce, agriculture, and tourism.

Tena and Pano rivers

To the two rivers that cross the City of the Cinnamon, the people call them the Loving Rivers; since, they come together and merge into one to love each other. Say the Kichwas Naporunas grandparents that each river is a man and a woman. It is a fascinating love story belonging to the disappeared people of the Quijos, a romantic story like that of Shakeaspere, the story of two young lovers with a fatal end. This is the story summarized:
"She was a princess Quijos young and beautiful, he a brave warrior, his love story was marked by passion and tragedy, because of the passion because they loved each other intensely, their encounters were always hiding from their parents, belonged to two peoples different, faced with death for a long time, tragedy because they make the fatal decision to commit suicide together to then each turn into a different river and finally join together to the sea. "

"To kill themselves they used the poison that is extracted from the vine known as curare and before dying they entrusted" Yacu Mama "the goddess and mistress of the water so that she can turn them into rivers with the promise never to separate, to stay together for the eternity, even if it means losing their bodies and not being able to love as humans do. "

"Today the city remembers its love every day, when crossing the pedestrian bridge, seen from the viewpoint or sitting in front of a bar on the boardwalk, leaving school, work, all those who pass at some point by the pedestrian bridge or vehicles they are witnesses of that great love, the grandparents Napo Runes say that when the water level rises, it is because the two lovers are loving each other with debauchery. "

Each town has its history, its legends, its myths, its beliefs and its particular way of telling its history; for the inhabitants of the city of Tena, its two rivers are part of the work of Shakeaspere.

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