Nueva Loja
Also known as New Loja, Lago Agrio
city in Ecuador, capital of the Sucumbíos Province
Weather now
cached 18h ago22°broken clouds
99% 0.8 m/s OpenWeatherMap
Place details
- Locality
- Nueva Loja
- Region
- Sucumbíos
- Country
- Ecuador
- Population
- 24,211
- Timezone
- America/Guayaquil
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
~2 min read
Article
Nueva Loja ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnweβa ˈloxa] noo-EV-ə LOH-(k)hə), also known as Lago Agrio (pronounced [ˈlaɣo aˈɣɾjo] LAG-oh ə-GREE-oh), is the capital of the province of Sucumbíos in Ecuador. It was founded in the 1960s as a base camp of Texaco. The official population as of the 2022 census is 55,627.
Overview