Percepción y patronos de uso de la fauna silvestre o comunidades indigenas Embera - Katíos en la cuenca del río San Jorge, zona amortiguadora del PNN - Paramillo.

• Main Authors: Javier Alfonso Racero - Casarrubia, Carlos C. Vidal, Oscar D. Ruiz, Jesús Bastelleros C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de los Andes 2008-12-01
• Series: Revista de Estudios Sociales
• Subjects: Indigenous communities; Embera-Katíos; Department of Córdoba; wild fauna; use patterns; Paramillo National Park.
• Online Access: http://res.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/566/1.php
• ISSN: 0123-885X; 1900-5180

In workshops with four indigenous communities in the Embera-Katíos communal lands (resguardo) , located in the upper San Jorge River Valley (Tres Playitas, Las Piedras, Boca San Cipriano, San Juan Medio), information about the wild fauna that they recognized inside their hunting grounds was collected. Mammals, reptiles, and birds, especially the Psittacidae family, are the vertebrates most used by the indigenous communities. No kind of use was found for amphibians. The consumption of reptiles such as Iguana iguana, Tupinambis teguixin, Caiman crocodylus fuscus, and Crocodylus acutus show them to be an important part of their culture. The indigenous communities associate environmental problems with habitat destruction due to the cultivation of illicit crops and forest clearing in the buffer zone around Paramillo National Park.