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The ethnographic gallery Amazonian Worlds in the traditional district of Guápulo counts on an extensive collection of etnográficas pieces of other times and contemporary artisan works of the towns that inhabit it. Amazonian worlds are divided in two sections: the museum itself where ceremonial objects are exhibited, pieces found in used establishments or ajuares in the past by shamanes or the soldiers.

In the museum supai or guardians of the forest can be admired to, figures of ceramics made by shamán from the visions caused by the taking of ayahuashca. The objects in exhibition are worked with the diverse available materials in the nature like seed, barks, log, stone. Next to the museum the gallery works, where the visitor can acquire artisan pieces of fine quality.

One is the greater exhibition of reptiles and alive amphibians of Ecuador, mini a zoological one specialized with 40 species and 120 animals. The emblematic animals are the great boas, caymans, iguanas, turtles and a small foreign animal collection like great pitones of Asia, very colorful serpents.

The Vivarium counts on six aquariums and 90% of the fauna are Ecuadorian. Vivarium is part of the Herpetológica Foundation Gustavo Orcés, who develops investigation projects and has traveling exhibitions in the country.

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