Other Internet Sites on Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador

• Weaving the Future is a video portrait of a Otavalo, a unique Indigenous community living in the Andean highlands of northern Ecuador.
• Indigenous Painters of Tigua are renowned for their colorful paintings depicting life high in the Andes mountains of rural Ecuador.
• Intercom-Ecuanex es una institución privada sin fines de lucro que trabaja en servicio de la sociedad civíl en el Ecuador.
• Ecuadorian Quichua Dictionary (Quichua Shimiyuc-Panca, Diccionario Quichua)
• Virtual Language Program - Coastal Ecuador; the oral literature of the vernacular languages and dialects of Coastal Ecuador
• Indigenous people information on Ecuador: Tierra Hermosa
• Saraguro, Province of Loja, Ecuador
• TexacoRainforest, Indigenous peoples of the Ecuadoran Amazon are suing Texaco for massive environmental damages to their historical lands.
• Universidad Intercultural de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indígenas (UINPI), parte del proyecto político y estratégico del movimiento indígena ecuatoriano, y constituye una de las iniciativas de mayor importancia en el futuro.
• Llacta! Movimientos Indígenas y Sociales del Ecuador
• Movimiento de Unidad Plurinacional Pachakutik - Nuevo País, una organización política del pueblo ecuatoriano, que se construye desde el aporte de diferentes sectores sociales. Elemento fundamental de su base ideológica y programática es el respeto a la diversidad expresada bajo las formas de la interculturalidad, la pluralidad y la plurinacionalidad.
• Otavalos OnLine, la Comunidad Virtual de los Otavalos.

• Matices, Folklore music from Otavalo
• Folklore group Purimuy from Ecuador
• Ayahuma, folklore group from Otavalo
• Quichua Mashis, music, instruments, art & culture of the Andes mountains. Also see http://www.quichuamashis.com/.

• Ecuador Explorer - Travel guide for Ecuador and the Galapagos
• Ecotourism Research and Other Adventures
• RICANCIE, a network of ten Quichua communities in the Upper Napo valley who have established a unique and genuine ecotourism programme based on a traditional respect for their natural and cultural heritage, as an alternative way of developing their communities for both present and future generations.
• Runa Tupari Native Travel, community-based tourism in Cotacachi.

Comentarios y Sugerencias / Comments and Suggestions: Marc Becker (marc@yachana.org)