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Ruta al Sur: consultation before the road

The road is not built without consulting the Inga People.

What we defend

The Santana–Mocoa–Neiva road concession, some 456 kilometres long, is a public-private partnership megaproject. The concession is a public-private partnership: the public party is the National Infrastructure Agency, attached to the Ministry of Transport. Its Functional Unit 7 passes through our territory with two projects that, we maintain, are one and the same: the Villagarzón ring road and the Puerto Umbría crossing. In 2016 the Ministry of the Interior certified that there were no Indigenous communities in those areas; the Albania Reserve maintains that the certification is wrong.

We maintain that Functional Unit 7 is a single project and must have a single consultation: we demand free, prior and informed consultation on the whole unit, with all the ethnic subjects of the territory, before and not after the works. This is our demand; no judge has yet ruled on its integral character.

How it has unfolded

2016Certification that there are no Indigenous communities in the sector.
20 Oct. 2023At the request of the Asociación de Desarrollo de Negritudes del Corregimiento de Puerto Umbría, the Administrative Court of Nariño, at second instance in a tutela, orders prior consultation with the Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities of Puerto Umbría.
2024The consultation is held with only two subjects: that association and the Cabildo Musu Waira Sacha Nucanchipa, part of the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi.
2 Sep. 2025The Second Administrative Court of Mocoa declares partial non-compliance for limiting the consultation to two communities and orders a new process with all of them.
29 Jun. 2026The Albania Reserve asks the Ministry of the Interior to comply with the ruling.
22 Jul. 2026It asks the concessionaire, the National Infrastructure Agency and INVIAS to open the prior consultation.
18 Sep. 2026The Directorate of Prior Consultation requests information on the direct impacts of the ring road on four ethnic subjects that still have not been consulted.

The Villagarzón ring road in figures

6collective properties in the socio-economic area of the works

4of them belong to ACIMVIP communities, between 300 and 600 metres from the works

2.396people in the Inga People of Villagarzón’s own census are affected by the bypass road: the whole People, except Musu Waira, which already held its consultation, and Cachiacu Andaki, which pursues its process with its own legal representation

4ethnic subjects in the ring road area still have not been consulted, according to the Directorate of Prior Consultation (18 Sep. 2026), among them the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Albania

The whole Inga People of Villagarzón is affected by the bypass road, and prior consultation must be carried out according to protocol with the whole People, except with Musu Waira, which already held its own, and with Cachiacu Andaki, which pursues its process with its own legal representation. By community, according to the own census (cut-off October 7, 2026): Wasipungo 979, San Miguel de la Castellana 600, Calenturas 237, Albania 144, Blasiaku 98, Chaluayaco 79, Saladilloiaco 78, Alparumiyaco 70, Nukanchipa Taita Kausadiru 64 and Atun Taita Ambi Upiadiru 47.

Those who stand with us and those we hold to account

Struggle	Stand with us	We hold to account / in relation to
A3Ruta al Sur	—	Private Ruta al Sur Concessionaire Ruta al Sur Concessionaire What we demand Prior consultation on the whole of Functional Unit 7 with all ethnic subjects, before the works. Since Jul. 2026 Public evidence Right of petition from the Albania Reserve to the concessionaire, the National Infrastructure Agency and INVIAS (22 Jul. 2026) Public National Infrastructure Agency National Infrastructure Agency What we demand That the concession comply with the court orders on consultation. Since Jul. 2026 Public evidence Right of petition from the Albania Reserve to the concessionaire, the National Infrastructure Agency and INVIAS (22 Jul. 2026) Ministry of the Interior · Prior Consultation Ministry of the Interior · Prior Consultation What we demand That it comply with the ruling that ordered consultation with all the communities. Since Jun. 2026 Public evidence Right of petition from the Albania Reserve to the Ministry of the Interior (29 Jun. 2026)

ally stands with us body accompanying entity we hold to account company or entity to which we address a demand backed by public evidence. Tap each one to see what we demand, since when, and the evidence.

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