KAWSAK SACHA

The Kawsak Sacha Proposal seeks to achieve the recognition of Living Forest through the promulgation of a law that catalogs a new category of preservation of the territorial spaces of the original peoples. This pronouncement will recognize the spiritual dimension of the "Sacred" territory, cultural heritage and biodiversity in Ecuador, declaring the territory of Sarayaku as a Free Zone and exclusion of the oil, mining and forestry industries.

The People of Sarayaku are heirs to a history of resistance and struggle for the validity of our freedom against colonizers, invasions and external aggressions because we are Sarayaku Runakuna, descendants of the jaguar, inhabitants of the Bobonaza, Pastaza and Marañón basins. Rivers from where Tayakkuna, carriers of ancient wisdom, sailed naming the places they traveled.

Sarayaku has been legally recognized since 1979. Its statute was reformed and approved on June 10, 2004 by the Council for the Development of Nationalities and Peoples of Ecuador (CODENPE), as “Kichwa Originary People of Sarayaku”.

The natural balance of the universe, the harmony of life, cultural perpetuity, the existence of living beings and the continuity of Kawsak Sacha, depend on the permanence and the transmission of the powers of the Protector Beings of the Jungle. It also corresponds to these Beings and the yachak maintain a relationship of respect and balance between human beings and the beings of the jungle.

KAWSAK SACHA it is a living being, with consciousness, constituted by all the beings of the Jungle, from the most infinitesimal to the greatest and supreme beings; includes beings from the animal, vegetable, mineral, spiritual and cosmic worlds, in intercommunication with human beings, providing them with what is necessary to revitalize their psychological, physical and spiritual facets, thus restoring energy, life and the balance of the original peoples.

It is in the waterfalls, the lagoons, the swamps, the mountains, the rivers, the trees and other places of the territory, where the Protector Beings of Kawsak Sacha, inhabit and develop a life of their own, similar to that of human beings. The Kawsak Sacha pass on knowledge to yachak to interact in the world of the Protector Beings of the Jungle, in order to maintain the balance of the Pachamama, heal people and society. This knowledge is methodically maintained and passed on to new generations.