The Coreguaje, also written Koreguaje, are an Indigenous people of the Caquetá region. Their communities are connected to rivers, forest gardens, fishing, hunting, medicinal knowledge, oral tradition, and community authority.
Caquetá is a region where the Amazon foothills meet lowland forest. It has also been heavily affected by colonization, armed conflict, cattle expansion, deforestation, and extractive economies. For the Coreguaje, defending territory is essential to defending culture, food, medicine, and identity.
Coreguaje knowledge is carried through language, elders, family practice, chagra agriculture, and relationships with rivers and forest beings. Their way of life reflects adaptation to a region of ecological richness and political pressure.
For Dulce Amazónica, the Coreguaje help tell the story of Caquetá as a place of resistance and survival. Their communities show that Indigenous peoples continue to defend life in some of the Amazon’s most threatened frontier zones.
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.