Aguas Verdes, Peru

Aguas Verdes, whose name means green waters, is a town in the Zarumilla Province of the Tumbes Region in northwestern Peru, and it is the capital of the Aguas Verdes District. The town sits directly on the border with Ecuador, where an international bridge over the Zarumilla River joins it to the Ecuadorian town of Huaquillas. The two towns share a busy commercial life with many formal shops and street sellers, and goods are priced both in Peruvian soles and in United States dollars, the only currency of Ecuador. A free transit agreement lets people of both countries cross between the towns, while the immigration control posts of each country stand further inland on either side. Aguas Verdes lies about 27 km northeast of Tumbes, the regional capital, and it marks the northern terminus of the Pan-American Highway in Peru. Its population was recorded as 2,390 in 1999.