It is a small city surrounded by a large number of attractions. Its name is due to the oil company Shell, who settled in the area in the year 1937 for the exploration and oil exploitation of the central region of the Amazon region of Ecuador. Its people are engaged in agriculture and trade, there are tea plantations in the area. With its packer Zulay. This population is a starting point for sites far from the jungle, since it is an important airstrip of eastern Ecuador.
Source: SAMANA, Tourist Guide for Travelers. Editorial Ecuatoriana. Quito, February 2010.
There are several companies of local flights in Ecuador, which serve flights to the jungle in the interior of the Ecuadorian Amazon from Shell airport, Pastaza province.
The airline company Tame Amazonia carries out flights to more than 40 tracks of indigenous communities in the interior of Ecuador's Amazon.