Second Phase of Georeferencing Advances in Indigenous Communities of Yurua

Coordination between technicians, community members, and institutional representatives during the fieldwork sessions.

On July 5, fieldwork began to carry out the georeferencing process in the four indigenous communities of Santa Rosa, Nueva Victoria, El Dorado, and Paititi, located in the Yurua district, Atalaya province.

The activity is led by the Regional Agrarian Directorate of Ucayali (DRAU), in partnership with the Upper Amazon Conservancy (UAC), which provides logistical support and technical accompaniment, in coordination with the regional organization ORAU and the indigenous association ACONADIYSH. The fieldwork includes the active participation of community authorities and Indigenous representatives, who contribute their deep ancestral knowledge of the territory.

DRAU presents the territorial delimitation map during the community assembly.

Although these communities already possess land titles, they were granted several decades ago without the use of precise instruments. Thanks to new technologies, it is now possible to define territorial boundaries in situ with greater accuracy and, in some cases, install physical boundary markers at strategic points.

“It is the desire of all my community members to know the boundaries of our territory, because we often face problems with our neighbors, such as the Murunahua Reserve (established for peoples in isolation). We live here—our territory is like our marketplace.”
— Roaldo Casanto, Chief of the Ashaninka community of Paititi

Community assembly with active participation of communal authorities, in coordination with DRAU, ORAU, ACONADIYSH, and UAC.

With these four communities, georeferencing coverage is now complete across the Yurua district—a key step toward strengthening Indigenous territorial governance in the headwaters of the Amazon.

The next steps include completing the placement of markers, processing cartographic data in the office, making technical adjustments, and re-registering the corrected titles with SUNARP.

At UAC, we reaffirm our commitment to the Indigenous peoples of Yurua and to the alliances that make the recognition and effective defense of their ancestral territories possible.