THE PLACE

• LOCATION: 4°13'30.5" S. - 69°56'36,7" E.
• MEDIAN TEMPERATURE: 26.5° C.
• ANNUAL PRECIPITATION 3,200 mm.
• AREA: 5.829 Km.2

LAND DISTRIBUTION:
16 Indigenous Territories (Resguardos):
Given by Colombian Constitutional Law, a precedent in South America, autonomy with the right to self-determination and rights over their very own collective lands: 191,092 Ha., and an expansion currently under wayof that territory underway.

Network of Natural Reserves:

These are initiatives from conservationists around Colombia, who buy land in strategic areas (i.e. headwaters) to promote the conservation of key spaces in the tropical forests of Colombia. In our region they have constituted themselves as ENRAIZADOS.
LOCATION OF ENRAIZADOS: NETWORK OF PRIVATE RESERVES
WITHIN THE MUNICIPALIY OF LETICIA.
The Great Amazon Basin is not one ecosystem, but rather an array of countless interconnected ecosystems. Leticia - located in the Upper Amazon Basin Region, an area well known for its particularly high ethno and biodiversity - is the capital of the Colombian Departamento del Amazonas. Leticia is a beautiful, charming, and peaceful city. Some call it the jewel of the great Amazon River.


This picturesque municipality, of about 43,000 thousand inhabitants, extends over 80 kilometers upriver, on the Great River, and about 50 kilometres inland through various types of tropical forests. It encompasses 27 indigenous communities, and 24 barrios in the urban area. Leticia shares an open border with Tabatinga (pop. 45,000) in Brazil and across the river with Santa Rosa (Pop. 700) in Peru.
Since its inception into Colombian territory (1927), Leticia has been a point of entry for journalistic, holiday, adventure, and scientific research tours and expeditions going into the ancestral forests and cultures of the Amazon.

Coming to Leticia is coming to a region that served as the boundary between the Portuguese and Spanish Empires and their shifting territorial claims along the Great River. A century and some decades after the wars of independence the region was mapped, surveyed, and in time plotted with benchmarks hidden in the millenary forests, demarking the boundaries between the three new republics: Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. However, when you wheeze on a motorcycle from Leticia to Tabatinga, or when you cross the Great River, and set foot in Santa Rosa you might not notice these borders today. In the tri-border region, there are no passport controls or border checks, and Brazilian and Colombian currencies are accepted alike in the three countries.

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