VISITS TO LAND WAORANI

The Wao territory today is 790,000 hectars, located in the province of Pastaza and partly in the province of Orellana. It extends to the Napo River in the north and to Villano and Curaray in the south.

The legal documents for this territory were given to president Velasco Ibarra, thanks in great part to the work of Dayuma Caentro. Later, president Oswaldo Hurtado handed over more territory.

The population was growing, and the Waos were strong warriors who fought among themselves to defend a territory that had not been delimited previously.

Today the Wao directors are concerned more with personal ambitions than with our territory, just as the youth have other interests and have forgotten to care for and defend what belongs to us.

We want to have a unique territory that we can live in well, maintaining our culture and our language, but these ideas are not respected.