Amazon Native People

Madre de Dios – Puerto Maldonado to Amazon Native People .

Tambopata Rainforest : In the year 2,005, it was estimated that the region of Madre de Dios had 107.664 inhabitants, or less than 1% of the population of Peru Amazon native People . Today, it is one of the fastest growing regions, mainly

by internal migration of low-income people out of overcrowded areas. Puerto Maldonado, capital of Madre de Dios, has 42 000 inhabitants, approximately. About 1000 people live in the neutral zone, or at the edge of the Reserve

Tambopata tours. Most people live in small villages settled around cities more growth as Labyrinth, and Huaypetue Mazuko. Only 8% of the total population of the screed are native Indians. West of the Mother of God dwell

Harakmbut, Machiguenga, Piro and Arawak tribes in rainforest  Native People .

The ancestral lands Ese’eja centered to the middle of the Tambopata Reserve. The Ese’eja tribe were always a fascinating and well described by anthropologists. They are a

branch of Tacana tribe, whose roots lie south of Bolivia. This tribe combined patriarchy with matriarchy. Another feature of the social organization of Ese’eja is that it is customary for the maternal grandparents adopt the first two

children after they are born. This practice is especially established by the decline of its population in the twentieth century. Ese’eja society, like most, is dependent on the relationship with other similar companies and is constantly

changing. The colonization and contact with different people, especially in the last century and during the rubber industry has been given to a gradual migration of Ese’eja downstream from rough screeds screeds to better access,

more populated and closer tributaries of the Madre de Dios river, in Peru, and Beni, in Bolivia. As a result of these migrations, borders the Ese’eja have extended to the banks of the Beni River in Bolivia.

  Peruvian tambopata –

The tribe Ese’eja, like almost all the tribes of the Amazon, using cassava as their main food. This result, native to the Amazon region, is easy to grow and has a high caloric value. Today, the population of the Ese’eja, as well as the

Machiguenga and Piro of the Urubamba, the upper Madre de Dios, has been reduced in number due to different causes and diseases. Epidemics were brought early settlers, such as influenza, polio, meningitis, tuberculosis, among

other first.

These epidemics were exacerbated during the time of the rubber boom. The nineteenth century is also characterized by the effort made by the Dominican priests creating the Vicariate of Madre de Dios and Urubamba

(Sacred Valley of the Incas, Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, inka jungle trek). Between 1920 and 1930, several missionary settlements were established. At the end of the 60s, the general and dictator Juan Velasco Alvarado

established the Agrarian Reform, which gave Aborigines the right to their land. So the natives began to gather in what today is known as “native communities of Tambopata tours”. Currently, Ese’eja living within its seven native

communities from Peru until Boiivia: Hell (on the banks of the Tambopata River), Pillar and Palma Real (on the banks of the Madre de Dios River), Sonene (in the Heath river), Portachuelo Alto, Bass and Vlllanueva Portachuelo (in Benl, Boiivia river).

Amazonia Wildlife People .

The community of Hell is located on the banks of the Tambopata River and is the gateway for ecotourism in Tambopata National Reserve. The Community received his title in 1976, which contains 9558 acres. In 1988, a post

called Ñape Public Health Center was created. Over the years, they have developed new workshops and health projects, development and conservation of the protected area and that center has become a great source of

ethnobotanical information. Today, people visit the center to test the chuchuhuasi, made ​​from the bark of Maytenus ebenlfolia, which is macerated with sugar cane rum. In addition, visitors can also experience the ayahuasca ceremony.

Ayahuasca ceremony is performed by teachers “ayahuasqueros” or specialized shamans. Ayahuasca is obtained from two plants of the Amazon, the Banlsteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, which when macerated produce a

hallucinogenic potion used to cure diseases, solve conflicts between tribes, family or personal, as a therapy for chimney cleaning and more variety of purposes.