Sharamentsa

Sharamentsa is a settlement in eastern Ecuador in the Pastaza province .

Rio Pastaza

Song of the Elaenia gigas bird on the river bank

The settlement is located about 30 km from the border with Peru , southeast of Puyo, on one of the many source rivers to the lower reaches of the Amazon. 103 members of the Achuar people live in it, which now comprises only around 3000 people.

In Sharamentsa there is a collaboration with the Amazonica pilot project . The residents are currently preparing an ecotourism project with a hotel and solar energy systems for science tourism , also to protect the intact tropical lowland primary forest there.

Web links

Commons : Sharamentsa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sharamentsa cambia sus costumbres para recibir al turista , Diario HOY , March 5, 2009 (Spanish)
• Information about the science tourism project on Amazonica.org
• Information on the Ecuador campus at the Faculty of Tourism at Munich University of Applied Sciences

Individual evidence

1. ^ Future for a traditional living space , Deutschlandfunk, December 11, 2008.