ACIMVIPACIMVIP Donate now

Idioma · Language

EspañolEsta página en español EnglishThis page in English
IngaNukanchipa rimai, our mother tongue. The website in Inga, coming soon. Meanwhile, Learn Inga with words taken from the sources, with their page.
Illustration of the Indigenous Guard patrolling the territory
Reserve of the Inga People

Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi

Twenty-five years of struggle for the title to the mountain of the masters.

30.803 ha

Titled land

Collective property, inalienable, imprescriptible and unseizable. 99 % is primary forest for conservation.

2020

Constitution

On 28 January 2020, in the upper rural settlements (local rural zones) of Villagarzón: Alto Alguacil, La Gaitana, Villa Lucero, Miravalle, Alto Vides, Alto Chalguayaco and Alto San Juan.

4 Cabildos

A shared reserve

At the time of its constitution it was inhabited by 79 families and 294 people.

The struggle for the title

  1. The ninetiesThe elders, guided by counsel and traditional medicine, see the oil risk and begin to request the titling of the mountain.
  2. 1997A first study for Chaluayaco seeks to protect Atun Uritu Salado and Arinpanjilo; it is not consolidated, for reasons beyond the community's control.
  3. 2012First constitution request, for about 14.600 hectares.
  4. 2015The Association agrees with the State on a roadmap for eleven land processes, this one among them.
  5. 2017The four communities jointly submit a new request and the technical visit takes place.
  6. 2018Topographic survey along the natural boundary that the Inga People had traced: mountain ridges, rivers, streams and sacred sites.
  7. 28 January 2020The National Land Agency constitutes the Reserve (Agreement 113).
  8. 15 July 2020The appeal by third parties is rejected and Agreement 113 is confirmed in all its parts (Agreement 126).
  9. 20 December 2020First assembly to elect the board of the Reserve.
  10. 7 December 2024The Internal Regulations, Mandate of Self-Government, are adopted.
  11. 27 June 2026The procedure to expand the Reserve is opened.
Illustration of the Indigenous Guard by the river

The signs of the territory

Welcome sign of the Alpa Rumiyaco community, of the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi. Within the territory, logging, fishing, hunting, entry without authorisation and weapons are prohibited. Photo: ACIMVIP.
«Allilla samungichi»: sign of the Cabildo Alpa Rumiyaco, belonging to the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi, during the POAI session. Photo: ACIMVIP.

The four Cabildos

The Reserve is shared: it is inhabited and governed by four Cabildos, with no hierarchy among them.

Cabildo Alparumiyaco Alto San Juan Las Delicias, belonging to the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi

Registered since 2001.

Cachiacu Andaki Cabildo, part of the Inga Indigenous Resguardo of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi

Of Andakí roots; recognised in the constitution of the Reserve.

Cabildo Nukanchipa Taita Kausadiru, belonging to the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi

Registered since 2014.

Cabildo Musu Waira Sacha Nucanchipa, belonging to the Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi

Founded in 1997 as the Nuevo Porvenir Cabildo and later took its own name; registered since 2007.

Our struggle for the Reserve → How we govern ourselves →

Documents

Cover: Agreement 113 of 28 January 2020Agreement 113 of 28 January 2020ConstitutionCover: Agreement 126 of 15 July 2020Agreement 126 of 15 July 2020ConstitutionCover: Overview of the Ancestral Territory (2022)Overview of the Ancestral Territory (2022)Memory

Contact

Inga Indigenous Reserve of Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi: nukanchipaalpaamukunapawasi@gmail.com. Association: asociacioningaacimvip@gmail.com.

The territory that contains it

Ancestral Territory Nukanchipa Alpa Amukunapa Wasi Vida Maskarigridiru

Discover the Territory