about 480 sáparos live in 400,000 hectares of amazonian territory between the conambo and pinduyacu rivers, and between the rivers curaray and napo inside of the yasuni national park in ecuador. there are also a hundred sáparos living in two towns, arabelas and iquitos, near the river tigre in peru. most of the sápara territory is located within these coordinates: latitude: -2.2186; longitude: -76.5087. &lt;mapframe latitude="-2.2186" longitude="-76.5087" zoom="10" width="400" height="300" align="right" /&gt;the sápara people are the smallest native group in the ecuadorian amazon. the population has decreased from about 200,000 people in the 16th century to almost 500 in the second decade of the 21st century. they live in the ecuadorian towns of kuitza (llanchamacocha), aremano (jandiayacu), mazaraka (mazaramu), cuyacocha, and akamaru.