| Official Name: | Aguarico Canton |
| Settlement Type: | Canton |
| Image Map1: | Cantones de Orellana.png |
| Map Caption1: | Cantons of Orellana Province |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Ecuador |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Orellana Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Capital |
| Subdivision Name2: | Nuevo Rocafuerte[1] |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 11212 |
| Population As Of: | 2022 census |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 6872 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | ECT |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Coordinates: | -0.9211°N -75.3992°W |
Aguarico Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Orellana Province. Its capital is the town of Nuevo Rocafuerte. Its population at the 2010 census was 4,658 INEC 2010.[3] [4]
Aguarico is part of the Cuyabeno Natural Reserve and Yasuni National Park.
Aguarico dates from the late nineteenth century during an estate boom on the banks of the Napo River in the Amazon region. During the invasion of Peru in Ecuador in 1941, Rocafuerte was taken by the Peruvian army after defeating the Ecuadorian military garrison on 11 August of that year. Following the armed conflict, almost all rubber plantations were abandoned.
On 22 February 1945, by order of President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, the town of Nuevo Rocafuerte officially became the new county seat of the Canton of Aguarico.
Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010:[5]