Village of Chazuta
The Last Incan Frontier
This small village is famed throughout the region for its elegant pottery. It has artisan workshops, its pre-Inca funerary urns, and a port on the Río Huallaga with great fishing. Nearby are the impressive 40m, three-level Tununtunumba waterfalls and the Chazutayacu thermal baths. Cacao workshops, traditional papermaking workshops, ceramics classes, and more. Known as the land of friendship for the locals' welcoming character, most of the people of Chazuta work in pottery or agriculture. The main crops you'll find here are corn, yucca, and cocoa.
Ancient Art of Ceramics
The ceramics have always played a vital role in the community, making Chazutinos famous for being bona fide potters. There is the opportunity to do and get to know the various traditional shapes and the spiritual significance of the symbols used.
Traditional/Ancestral Food
Amazonian cuisine is as diverse as the area's ecology. Timbuche, Sacha Culantro, Singinguiri, Roasted plantains, Macambo, Frejoles Amazonicos and so much more. There is the opportunity to join a local Chazutan Cooking Class.
Eco-Paper Fabric, Eco-Bags & Natural Products
More than ancestral knowledge, the Chazutinos are great at integrating modern needs with what the land has to offer them around. From projects producing paper from banana's tree trunk and other plants, to families planting, harvesting, collecting and transforming rubber into bags. To handmade soaps and natural products made from the land's surroundings.
From Sacred Cacao into Delicious Chocolate
Visit Cacao plantation. harvest the fruit, observe the production process and best part, taste the final results of unique, local, handmade chocolates.