Yagua town. Snapshot of some of the people that make up this coastal settlement. During the nineteenth century, the Franciscans left the area because of the wars of independence and returned in 1840. Meanwhile, palm fronds and Pebas were used by the civil authorities of the town of Pebas as labor in the collection of sarsaparilla. A second wave of colonization came to the area in mid-nineteenth century, meaning new forms of slavery to the palm fronds. Shortly before the start of the "rubber boom would occur between the wars and Mayorunas Yahuas, and between them and the Huitotos.