The lower course of the Aguarico River was finalized and legally demarcated as part of the long-disputed Ecuador-Peru frontier according to The Rio de Janeiro Protocol of 1942.

Finally it ends at the Napo river, in the same border, a little over the locality the town of Pantoja in Loreto, Peru.

They decided then (22 February 1542) that Orellana would continue down the Aguarico River in search of food.

Finally Pizarro sent three men with a message to Orellana for him to begin the construction of a new boat, the Victoria.

Some of the problems that the community must face in the present era are environmental contamination and the over-exploitation of lumber.