| Summary: | In six Amazonian indigenous communities that
call to their selves as membership of nación Kichwa,
located in Pastaza province, in Ecuador, it is analyzed
the process of inhabitation, population characteristics,
how much the territory is enough for food requirements
for the indigenous families, and their use of
land, to determine important factors to improve strategies
for local sustainable development. It is considered
important because Ecuador has constitutional
protection for plural ethnicity and it is looking for
improving a new productivity matrix that let down
extraction and contamination and raise another matrix
based on knowledge and richness from natural
renewable resources. Survey used statistics information,
qualitative analysis around reality in process,
participant research, documentary analysis, oral
history and surveys to leadership and family`s chiefs.
Results confirm that communities hold standing
their identity and knowledge systems of the Amazonian
environment, whose conservation they need.
Those are factors to be included in local development strategies that let people become safe from effects of
extractives activities that are dangerous for culture
and environment, in the geographic and biological
diversity of the high Ecuadorian Amazonia.
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