communities

Pesillo: Women who collect mushrooms
53-year-old Herminia Catucuamba is a kichwa cayambi woman, leader of the Urcu Sisa Artisanal and Commercial Union. She is one of the twenty women who collect mushrooms from pine forests

Discover the Afroecuadorian culture
The first Afro-Ecuadorians to inhabit Ecuador arrived in the middle of the 16th century (1526). During the time of the Spanish conquest, jesuits and landowners began importing African slaves to

El Origen de los Cañaris
Las culturas pre incaicas como los Cañaris tuvieron interesantes visiones del mundo ya que atribuyeron aspectos de su raza y cultura a la naturaleza y el misticismo. Se atribuyeron eventos

Discovering Pastaza with Juan José Olivo
Juan José Olivo is a tourism consultant and photographer from Quito. He´s lived in the Ecuadorian Amazon for more than 7 years now. In this interview he tells us about

Maga Dávalos on documentary photography & indigenous communities
Maga Dávalos is a documentary photographer who has lived with indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon, documenting their ways of life through her lens. Interview: How long have you been