Editing Napo River (section)

==Geography==
[[Image:NapoVillagePeru02-02.jpg|thumb|Village along the west bank of Napo River in Peru, a few miles above confluence with the Amazon. The land visible beyond the waterway is an island in the river.]]

Before it reaches the plains it receives a great number of small streams from impenetrable, saturated and much broken mountainous districts, where the dense and varied vegetation seems to fight for every piece of ground. From the north it is joined by the [[Coca River]], having its sources in the gorges of [[Cayambe volcano]] on the [[equator]], and also a powerful river, the [[Aguarico River|Aguarico]] having its headwaters between Cayambe and the [[Colombia]] frontier.
From the west, it receives a secondary tributary, the [[Curaray River|Curaray]], from the [[Andes|Andean]] slopes, between Cotopaxi and the [[Tungurahua volcano]].  From its Coca branch to the mouth of the Curaray the Napo is full of snags and shelving sandbanks and throws out numerous canoes among jungle-tangled islands, which in the [[wet season]] are flooded, giving the river an immense width.  From the Coca to the Amazon it runs through a forested plain where not a hill is visible from the river - its uniformly level banks being only interrupted by [[swamp]]s and [[lagoon]]s. From the Amazon the Napo is navigable for river craft up to its Curaray branch, a distance of about {{convert|216|mi|km|abbr=on}}, and perhaps a bit further; thence, by painful canoe navigation, its upper waters may be ascended as far as ''Santa Rosa'', the usual point of embarkation for any venturesome traveller who descends from the [[Quito]] tableland.  The Coca river may be penetrated as far up as its middle course, where it is jammed between two mountain walls, in a deep canyon, along which it dashes over high falls and numerous reefs.  This is the stream made famous by the expedition of the Spanish [[conquistador]] [[Gonzalo Pizarro]].

Hydrometric stations on the Napo River:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 ! rowspan="2" | Station
 
! rowspan="2" |[[River mile|River kilometer]] (rkm)
! rowspan="2" |[[Elevation]] (m)
! rowspan="2" |[[Drainage basin]]

(km<sup>2</sup>)
! colspan="2" |Average [[Discharge regime|discharge]]
(m<sup>3</sup>/s)
|-
! <ref name="Hydro-SHEDS">{{cite web|url=https://www.hydrosheds.org|title=Hydro-SHEDS}}</ref><ref name="Amazon">{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/V1/index.php/component/content/?view=article&id=43&catid=191&Itemid=179|title=Amazon}}</ref>
 ! <ref name="SO-HYBAM">{{cite web|url=https://hybam.obs-mip.fr|title=SO-HYBAM}}</ref>
|-
| colspan="6" |'''Lower Napo'''
|-
|Francisco de Orellana
|0
|78
|103,307.79
|7,147.8
|6,611
|-
|[[Mazán District|Mazán]]
|79.76
|85
|100,518
|7,033
|6,464.5
|-
|Bellavista
|194.51
|105
|90,305.3
|6,416.1
|–
|-
|[[Napo District|Santa Clotilde]]
|256.24
|113
|85,770
|6,124.4
|5,700
|-
|Campo Serio
|421.35
|140
|50,342.9
|3,430.3
|–
|-
|[[Cabo Pantoja]]
|546.8
|166
|44,698.2
|3,007.5
|3,280
|-
|[[Nuevo Rocafuerte]]
|574.1
|173
|27,489.4
|1,937.3
|2,032
|-
|Pañacocha
|673
|203
|21,731.4
|1,552.1
|–
|-
| colspan="6" |'''Upper Napo'''
|-
|[[Puerto Francisco de Orellana]]
|782
|243
|12,343
|1,016
|1,105
|-
|Puerto Napo
|950
|427
|4,182.4
|260.9
|377.6
|}