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Cordillera Escalera-Loreto Perú: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto Escalera-Loreto Cordillera Perú: Instituciones Participantes/ Participating Institutions .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................no. 26 ....................................................................................................................... 26 Perú: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto Perú: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto Instituciones participantes/ Participating Institutions The Field Museum Nature and Culture International (NCI) Federación de Comunidades Nativas Chayahuita (FECONACHA) Organización Shawi del Yanayacu y Alto Paranapura (OSHAYAAP) Municipalidad Distrital de Balsapuerto Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP) Herbario Amazonense de la Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana (AMAZ) Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI) Esta publicación ha sido financiada en parte por The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The Hamill Family Foundation y The Field Museum. / This publication has been funded in part by The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The Hamill Family Foundation, and The Field Museum. Rapid Biological and Social Inventories The Field Museum Science and Education 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496, USA T 312.665.7430 F 312.665.7433 www.fieldmuseum.org/rbi THE FIELD MUSEUM FIELD THE INFORME/REPORT NO. 26 Perú: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto Nigel Pitman, Corine Vriesendorp, Diana Alvira, Jonathan A. Markel, Mark Johnston, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, Agustín Lancha Pizango, Gloria Sarmiento Valenzuela, Patricia Álvarez-Loayza, Joshua Homan, Tyana Wachter, Álvaro del Campo, Douglas F. Stotz y/and Sebastian Heilpern Octubre/October 2014 Instituciones participantes/Participating Institutions The Field Museum Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana (IIAP) Nature and Culture Herbario Amazonense de la International (NCI) Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana (AMAZ) Federación de Comunidades Museo de Historia Natural de la Nativas Chayahuita Universidad Nacional Mayor de (FECONACHA) San Marcos Organización Shawi del Centro de Ornitología y Yanayacu y Alto Paranapura Biodiversidad (CORBIDI) (OSHAYAAP) Municipalidad Distrital de Balsapuerto LOS INFORMES DE INVENTARIOS RÁPIDOS SON PUBLICADOS POR/ Esta publicación ha sido financiada en parte por The Gordon and Betty RAPID INVENTORIES REPORTS ARE PUBLISHED BY: Moore Foundation, The Hamill Family Foundation y The Field Museum./ This publication has been funded in part by The Gordon and Betty Moore THE FIELD MUSEUM Foundation, The Hamill Family Foundation, and The Field Museum. Science and Education Cita sugerida/Suggested Citation 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496, USA Pitman, N., C. Vriesendorp, D. Alvira, J.A. Markel, M. Johnston, T 312.665.7430, F 312.665.7433 E. Ruelas Inzunza, A. Lancha Pizango, G. Sarmiento Valenzuela, www.fieldmuseum.org P. Álvarez-Loayza, J. Homan, T. Wachter, Á. del Campo, D.F. Stotz y/and S. Heilpern, eds. 2014. Peru: Cordillera Escalera-Loreto. Editores/Editors Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 26. The Field Nigel Pitman, Corine Vriesendorp, Diana Alvira, Jonathan A. Museum, Chicago. Markel, Mark Johnston, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, Agustín Lancha Fotos e ilustraciones/Photos and illustrations Pizango, Gloria Sarmiento Valenzuela, Patricia Álvarez-Loayza, Joshua Homan, Tyana Wachter, Álvaro del Campo, Douglas F. Stotz Carátula/Cover: Foto de Álvaro del Campo./ y/and Sebastian Heilpern Photo by Álvaro del Campo Diseño/Design Carátula interior/Inner cover: Foto de Álvaro del Campo./ Photo by Álvaro del Campo Costello Communications, Chicago Láminas a color/Color plates: Figs. 9A, 10D, 12D, D. Alvira; Mapas y gráficas/Maps and graphics Fig. 8P, P. Boissel; Fig. 8Q, A. Delberghe; Figs. 1, 3A–C, 3E–F, Jon Markel, Mark Johnston y/and Rolando Gallardo 4A–B, 6A–B, 7A, 7M, 9C–D, 10B, 11A–B, 12B, 12H, 13B, Traducciones/Translations Á. del Campo; Figs. 7D–E, 7G, 7L, 7Q, G. Gagliardi-Urrutia; Fig. 8T, M. Giraud-Audine; Figs. 6D–J, M. Hidalgo; Figs. 10C, 12A, J. Inga; Patricia Álvarez-Loayza (English-castellano), Álvaro del Campo Fig. 8R, R. Knight; Fig. 9B, C. López Wong; Figs. 5A, 5D, 5F, 5H, 5J–K, (English-castellano), Emily Goldman (castellano-English), D. Neill; Figs. 10A, 11D–E, M. Pariona; Figs. 5B, 5G, M. Ríos Paredes; Nigel Pitman (castellano-English), Ernesto Ruelas (English- Figs. 12F–G, 12J, S. Rivas; Figs. 12C, 12E, P. Ruiz Ojanama; castellano y/and castellano-English), Tyana Wachter (English- Figs. 8C, 8O, 8S, 9E, P. Saboya; Fig. 11C, B. Tapayuri; Figs. 8A–B, castellano), Agustín Lancha Pizango (castellano-Shawi) y/and 8D–M, J. Tobias; Figs. 5L–M, L. Torres; Fig. 8N, F. Uribe; Figs. 7B–C, Julio Lancha Chanchari (castellano-Shawi) 7F, 7H–K, 7N–P, 7R–T, P. Venegas; Figs. 3D, 5C, 5E, C. Vriesendorp. The Field Museum es una institución sin fines de lucro exenta de impuestos federales bajo la sección 501(c)(3) del Código Fiscal Interno./ Impreso sobre papel reciclado. Printed on recycled paper. The Field Museum is a non-profit organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. ISBN NUMBER 978-0-9828419-4-5 © 2014 por The Field Museum. Todos los derechos reservados./ © 2014 by The Field Museum. All rights reserved. Cualquiera de las opiniones expresadas en los informes de los Inventarios Rápidos son expresamente las de los autores y no reflejan necesariamente las del Field Museum./Any opinions expressed in the Rapid Inventories reports are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of The Field Museum. Desde el aire era claro que estos parches de bosques poco Shawi localizadas en el río Paranapura (Nueva Vida y desarrollados se daban dentro de una red de bosques más Los Ángeles), dos comunidades en el río Yanayacu (San altos. No estamos seguros si esto representaba un proceso Antonio de Yanayacu y San Miguel) y cinco comunidades de erosión de las arenas de las mesetas, producción in en el río Cachiyacu (Balsapuerto, Canoa Puerto, Puerto situ de arenas en el valle, o ambos procesos. Nuestras Libre, Nueva Luz y San Lorenzo; Fig. 2B). En este reporte aproximaciones iniciales a partir de las imágenes presentamos tres capítulos con una visión generalizada satelitales sugieren que estos chamizales cubren unas de la historia, organización social y fortalezas culturales 700 ha, una extensión más grande que los chamizales de las comunidades Shawi que fueron visitadas durante conocidos en la selva baja de Loreto (p. ej., la Reserva nuestro trabajo de campo. Un capítulo examina la Nacional de Allpahuayo-Mishana, Jenaro Herrera). especial manera de los Shawi para relacionarse con su Las quebradas locales eran de aguas negras y medio ambiente; su conocimiento, uso y manejo de los claras, algunas con fondos de canto rodado, algunas recursos naturales de la Cordillera Escalera; y cómo esto con fondos arenosos. Aquí registramos las aguas más se relaciona con la percepción de la calidad de vida de la ácidas (pH promedio de 5.2) y las conductividades más región (ver el capítulo Patrimonio biocultural del pueblo bajas (3–12 µS/cm). La gran mayoría de suelos en esta Shawi: Uso de los recursos naturales, conocimiento región tenían una calidad esponjosa, de tal manera que ecológico tradicional y calidad de vida, este volumen). uno se encontraban rebotando al caminar en esta densa alfombra de raíces. Nuestro trabajo en este lugar se redujo de cuatro a GEOLOGÍA, HIDROLOGÍA Y SUELOS dos días cuando 22 indígenas Shawi y Awajún ocuparon Autores: Robert F. Stallard y Lina Lindell nuestro campamento. Ellos habían caminado desde sus comunidades San Ramón de Sillay y Nueva Jordania, Objetos de conservación: Un paisaje geológicamente diverso que ambas al norte de nuestro campamento, debido a que comprende dos sectores con diferentes tipos de rocas, suelos y aguas; en el sector sur, un mosaico de varios tipos de areniscas creían que estábamos trabajando sin su permiso en (arenitas de cuarzo, líticas y sublíticas), calizas, lutitas (arcillas las tierras que ellos consideran sus territorios (ver la compactas) y evaporitas pequeñas, asociados con diversos tipos sección ‘Conflictos y titulación de tierras’ en el capítulo de suelos y comunidades de plantas; en el sector norte, un paisaje Panorama regional). Sin darnos cuenta estuvimos dominado por arenitas de cuarzo del Cretáceo, dando lugar a suelos involucrados en un conflicto entre organizaciones y una vegetación similar a la ubicada en otros levantamientos subandinos y las areniscas precámbricas y los granitos erosionados indígenas (CORPI y ORDEPIAA) y municipalidades del Escudo Guayanés; quebradas y lagos con un amplio rango (Cahuapanas y Balsapuerto). Por fortuna nadie fue de acidez y conductividad, los cuales ofrecen un hábitat herido. Abandonamos el campamento al siguiente
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