Esse Ejja Community - Peace - Bolivia is tourism

It is possible to visit the Esse Ejja community and its indigenous families to learn about their way of life and their relationship with nature.…

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UTM N coordinates 8401181 – E 658481
Altitude 245 m.s.n.m.
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Esse Ejja Community – Peace

To reach this tourist destination it is necessary to leave the City of La Paz towards Rurrenabaque, from this point take a boat to San Buenaventura and continue the road trip to the Eyiyoquibo Community inhabited by indigenous people of the Esse culture. – Come on. They live there 130 families. The word Esse – Ejja means “Good People”, they were also called “Guarayos” or “Chamas”. Legend has it that they appeared at the headwaters of the Madre de Dios rivers., Tambopata, Heath and Madidi over the forested mountain of Bahuajja (with a round forehead) which according to its mythology is a sacred and secret site, located in the North of the Municipality of Ixiamas near the border with the department of Pando. This original indigenous group was not subdued or conquered by another culture; Its social organization is based on the family, on matrilocal basis, That is to say, the woman remains in her mother's house.. The kinship system is patrilineal. Leadership or status is transmitted only between men.

Marriage is predominantly endogamous and interclan. In his worldview, life has four dimensions: the underground world, the one on the surface, the abode of the God Eyacuiñajji and in the fourth are the celestial bodies. Your calendar is divided into ten times. The first are the Daqui She month of the turtle and the Shoje She of the fat monkeys. The month lasts 25 a 40 days. Community members are skilled at playing the flute, the mouth organ or harmonica and the bass drums. In craft production, men are skilled canoe builders.. Their houses are made of chuchío, so that, motacú and charo, forest species of the region.

Women weave plant fiber, the round leaf, the motacú and the chonta, with which they make baskets, mats and vents with geometric shapes. It is possible to visit the community and its indigenous families to learn about their way of life and their relationship with nature.. The advisable season to visit this community is during the dry season in the months of May to September..

AUTONOMOUS DEPARTMENTAL GOVERNMENT OF LA PAZ
SECRETARY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL TRANSFORMATION
DIRECTORATE OF CULTURES AND TOURISM
TOURISM UNIT

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