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Ccotos

Experience indigenous culture at this homestay on the shores of Lake Titicaca

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Experience

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Impact

Start collaboration:

2018

Directly impacted families:

13

Project description

inauguration of hot water pump in Ccottos

Situated on the Capachica peninsula, Ccotos Capachica is a community homestay experience established to protect local indigenous culture. Founded by the Quechua people who have guarded Lake Titicaca for generations, this project helps to provide this indigenous community, whose ancestral farming methods can no longer compete with intensive agricultural practices, with a second stream of income through tourism, while at the same time supporting traditional indigenous culture. Ccotos Capachica provides training in tourism to young people, who would otherwise leave the community in search of opportunity, as well as preserving indigenous lands, knowledge and craftsmanship. By improving the community's public facilities and generating an income through tourism and creating employment, Ccotos Capachica is able to support a network of exclusively indigenous families who provide tourists with accommodation and meals, as well as a number of other service providers. Travelers to Ccotos Capachica stay in indigenous homes where they can enjoy traditional Quechuan meals, including a “Pachamanca" baked over hot stones and take part in kayak excursions on Lake Titicaca and interpretive walks around the Capachica peninsula to find out more about how this indigenous community works the land and make traditional crafts.

Involvement of V Social

The VSocial Foundation supports the Ccotos community in Capachica by providing training and tourism workshops. Besides supplying donations and travelers to stay with the community, VSocial has also helped to fund an electric water pump to ensure a supply of drinking water to the whole community via an aqueduct.

Start collaboration:

2018

Directly impacted families:

13

Support for Ccotos

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Dec 2022

The community water pump was provided to guarantee vital water supply to more than 200 families in the region.

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Ccotos

Country: Peru

Ccotos Capachica supports more than 50 people from 13 indigenous families directly, providing both economic opportunities in tourism and prospects for young people, who would otherwise leave their ancestral lands for employment opportunities in Lima or Cuzco. The community project supports another 20 people indirectly, who supply food to the homestay or provide other services. And through the water pump that supplies the community aqueduct, more than 800 people are now provided with running drinking water.

Their story

inauguration of hot water pump in Ccottos
Cottos Capachica 7
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