In July of this year, a pipeline ruptured near an upriver tributary of the Aguarico, just above Dureno. The spill, an estimated 16,000 barrels, spread for almost a hundred miles down through the precious 600,000-hectare Cuyabeno wildlife reserve, as far as Zabalo.
![Contaminated Petroamazonas site](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Petroamazonas_site.jpg)