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Tayazú

This community belonging to the Wanano ethnic group is located two hours forty-five minutes from the department’s capital, it can be reached by land or by water through the Vaupés river. This community has been characterized by its creative drive. The members of the Tayazú community are expert builders, desired by neighboring communities for their great ability in the development of houses and malocas of an ancestral and modern type. In this community the mixture of architectural styles are the living proof of the harmony that can come to be between different peoples and times.

COMUNIDAD INDIGENA JERUSALEN

Community made up of 11 indigenous families, settled on the banks of the Caquetá river, belonging to the municipality of Solano, department of Caquetá, bordering the Amazon.
Community which survives with its indigenous traditional knowledge and ancestral customs of the jungle they inhabit. When socializing the project of planting native trees with the Saving The Amazon Foundation, they showed great interest and absolute participation, since they do not have any economic income for conservation or reforestation work in the Amazon jungle. This is how we started planting on March 1, 2020.

COMUNIDAD INDIGENA QUINCHE

Community made up of 6 indigenous families, settled on the banks of the Caquetá river, belonging to the municipality of Solano, department of Caquetá, bordering the Amazon.
Community dedicated mainly to fishing as a means of subsistence, when we met and told them about the project of planting native trees in their territories that supply food and ancestral medicine, they showed absolute interest and immediate participation, this is how we started planting work on 2 March 2020.

COMUNIDAD INDIGENA LOS ESTRECHOS

Indigenous community made up of 19 families located on the banks of the Caquetá river, belonging to the municipality of Solano, department of Caquetá, bordering the Amazon. This community is the largest in the resguardo and the most up-to-date with respect to environmental projects, since it is the pilot community named by the resguardo, its members work and subsist with trades such as fishing, forest exploitation and ancestral customs such as the manufacture of mambe for their sale. With them we started work first of all the previous communities on the date of October 28, 2019.

COMUNIDAD INDIGENA UMANCIA

Community made up of 25 families established on the banks of the Caquetá river on the right bank, belonging to the municipality of Puerto Leguizamo, department of Putumayo, its members subsist on fishing, forest harvesting in their community, therefore, they received with open arms the project of the Saving The Amazon Foundation, planting native trees on March 3, 2020.