Three Guardians of Alto Putumayo Challenge Monoculture, Livestock and Roads

The Sibundoy Valley, in the Upper Putumayo, is an ancestral territory inhabited by two sister ethnicities: the Kamëntša and the Ingas, descendants of the Peruvian Incas. It is also the place where at least four rivers are born, among them, the Putumayo that below joins with the Caquetá to embrace the Amazon. Putumayo River, which is born in the Sibundoy Valley. Photo: Laura Niño/La Silla Vacia. Mountains and grasslands of the Sibundoy Valley. Ph…