Community "Sanandita" | Community "San Benito" | Tourist Programs
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Indigenous Community "Sanandita"
The indigenous community of the Yuracaré is located in the Amazon Rainforest of the Department of Cochabamba in the Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory. In the community, the tourism association ´Asociación de Turismo Sanandita (ATSA) ´ was founded by 10 families that were trained to cater for and guide visitors. The association owns a typical cabin, camping equipment and canoes for the transport on the river. Two different programmes are offered: "The indigenous life" and "The indigenous world."
Indigenous Community "San Benito"
The Yurakaré community of San Benito is found by the banks of the Isiboro river, inside the Indigenous Territory and National Park “Isiboro Sécure” – TIPNIS. The community is formed of approximately 30 families. A difference from their neighboring community of Sanandita is the presence of wise elders. Most of the Yurakaré in San Benito have migrated to the lower zones of the Isiboro river, in which place they have found good earth to cultivate and an abundance of fruit, fish, and wild animals. Many of the elderly continue living out their tradicions and customs, transmitting this knowledge to their children and grandchildren.
San Benito presents the same characteristcs of their neighbor community of Sanandita, but in order to longer maintain their lifestyle, this culture has frequently welcomed visitors from the program The indigenous life.
Programme: “The indigenous life”
The programme “The indigenous life” allows individual visitors to integrate into the daily life of a Yuracaré or Trinitaria family, to become part of the indigenous community and to participate in its activities. Programme activities cannot be determined in detail prior to the stay because they largely depend on the interests and cooperation of the visitor. Still, visitors will always be part of typical activities of day to day life such as:
Agriculture and breeding of domestic animals
Fishing, hunting and collecting
Traditional cooking
Discover the rainforest as a source of life
Child care
Bathing in the river
Etc.
Programme "The indigenous world"
The programme “The indigenous world” includes a tour that allows the visitor to get to know and experience the incredible beauty and diverse flora and fauna of the indigenous territories of the Yuracaré and Trinitarians. The trips are undertaken with indigenous guides who during the whole tour will share their knowledge about surviving in the Amazon Rainforest.
Possible activities are:
Multiple day camping-/trekking tours (on foot)
Multiple day camping tours (in canoe)
Multiple day stay in rainforest camp to watch wild animals