Filling different paths with color

Hi, i am stuck with filling my path, i don t know hot to merge, or unite specific parts of different paths, I hope the picture explain it better, i want to fill the area marked orange with solid color. I am using Illustrator CS6.
Cheers, de Filippo

Take a look at Live Paint and Shape Builder tool.

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> The question is simple yet important: I have drawn path
1 and path 2. I want to
> joint them, the way you join in every graphic
application like Illustrator
> (cmd+j) or FreeHand. If I try to clik on the ending
point of one of them
> nothing happens and I can't find a command to join them
in some other way.
> So, does someone have any suggestion or shuld I think
taht this is impossibile
> to obtain?
>
> Thanks
>

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