The Tatuyo are an Indigenous people of the Vaupés region and part of the Eastern Tukanoan cultural world. Their culture is connected to river life, chagra agriculture, fishing, hunting, oral tradition, and ceremonial relationships with neighboring peoples.
Tatuyo identity is carried through language, family, sacred stories, and the responsibilities taught by elders. In the Vaupés, language often carries identity, ancestry, and social belonging. Protecting language means protecting a complete way of understanding the world.
Tatuyo communities live within an environment where gardens, rivers, forest paths, and malocas are all places of education. Children learn by observing, listening, helping, and participating in community life.
For Dulce Amazónica, the Tatuyo help show that Indigenous education is not limited to classrooms. It is found in food cultivation, fishing, ceremony, stories, and the respectful discipline of daily life.
One of Many Voices
This community is one of many Indigenous peoples whose presence, knowledge, and artisanías are represented through Dulce Amazónica in Guatapé, Colombia. When you visit, you meet an ambassador from one of our partner communities in person.