The Waorani Tribe is one of the most emblematic groups in Ecuador located in the northwest Amazon of the country, encompassing around 2.000 people in different provinces of the Andean country such as Pastaza, Orellana, and Napo.
This tribe is full of an interesting historical context that brings international media and journalists’ attention to film documentaries and interviews about their everyday lives and the perceptions they carry about life!
Their culture will leave you amazed and wanting to know more about them.
The community is one of the recently contacted Ecuadorian indigenous people who have opened their arms for tourist agencies to experience how they live, survive, and adapt to their culture. They are one of the fundamental pillars of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Fascinating facts about Waoranis you may not know
- Language: Waoranis speak their own language, Wao-Terereo, which helps them solve problems more easily and enhances their cognitive skills.
- Location: The Waorani tribe distributes across 24 different communities, with 12 situated in the province of Pastaza.
- Economy: They carry some commercial agreements with different entities so they can have economic income, most of their economic growth comes from what they have in their surroundings and do daily, like crafts and hunting.
- Medicine: Waoranis use natural medicine to get healed from any disease or even if they get sick their immune system is adapted to protect them in case it gets worse.
- Gender Role: Women protect kids and cultivate crops for survival, on the other hand, men are in charge of hunting and fishing, and they take care also of skilled risk activities.
Immersive cultural experiences
Meeting people who live completely different from ordinary life is a new and brave adventure that you must experience if you are into wildlife. It must be on a bucket list for discovering new places! You can find comfortable accommodation at an Amazon Lodge and ask if they have activities related to the Amazonian Waorani tribe. During the journey, apart from the experience and learning the things that will enrich your knowledge, you will be able to enjoy the Amazon nature from its rivers to its animals. The Napo River is an example of one of the rivers you may navigate during the experience where you will see a wonderful view, and feel the humid hot weather that will give you a unique connection with nature.
Save the Amazon
The Amazon is one of the most precious treasures that South American countries can have, not only for its wonderful landscapes, animals, and traditions but also for its natural resources such as oil which is a resource that is not renewable. To preserve nature in itself it’s important to conserve this oil in the zones where it belongs, the consequences of extracting it can be pollution inside the zone and big debts for the restoration of the affected environment. Incentivizing curious explorers to travel to Ecuador is a great idea not just to develop the country’s economy, it is also a solution to save our environment and come up with new ideas to bring new resources of energy and keep innovating in new ways for the development of our planet without damaging our surroundings.
Extracting this resource may not affect citizens directly but it can affect some tribes that are far from society like the Waoranis warriors.
What are you waiting to enter on this new adventure?
