Arajuno - Former Shell Oil Company base that became the home of the Tidmarshes and later the McCullys. This is where the rescue party set out from after the deaths of the five missionaries.

Coca - A jungle town at the northern entrance of Waorani territory, one of the main gateways into the area for oil companies.

Macuma - Base of the Youderians.

Nuevo Rocafuerte - the town that served as a base of the Capuchin Fathers, including Bishop Alejandro Lavaca, who tried to begin a Christian ministry among the Waorani many years after 1956. (The Fathers also worked in Coca.) Bishop Lavaca of the Fathers and Sister Ines Arango were killed by another band of Waorani as part of a continuing struggle between the Waorani and the oil companies that were moving into their territory.

Palm Beach - Sand bar on the Curaray River where the five missionaries set up their camp in January 1956 and where they were killed.

Puyo - A village about five miles from Shell Mera and a  drinking, gambling, and prostitution center for jungle Indians. In the present day (2016) there is also an active Waorani church there.

Puyupungu - A mission outstation started by the Elliots, later the base of the Flemings.

Quito - Capital of Ecuador, base of many missionary operations in the country and home of radio station HCJB.

Shandia - Mission station at which Peter Fleming and Jim Elliot began their school for Quichua boys.  It also served as the home base for overlapping periods of the Elliots, the Flemings, and the McCullys.

Shell Mera - A Mission Aviation Fellowship field and base of the Saint family.  Formerly (in the 1940s) a Shell Oil company base.

"Terminal City" - Name given by the missionaries to the Waorani settlement they spotted from the air.  The Waorani visitors who came on January 6 and the men who killed the missionaries on January 8 came from this settlement.

Tiwaenu - Waorani settlement near the Tiwaenu River where Dayuma, Elisabeth and Valerie Elliot, and Rachel Saint came to live in 1958.