Process Uwottüja (Piaroa) People

The Uwottüja People, also known as the Piaroa, inhabit the Amazon region of southern Venezuela and are known for their egalitarian social organization and strong systems of communal decision-making. Their governance emphasizes autonomy, non-coercion, and collective stewardship of land and resources, rooted in ancestral cosmology. The Uwottüja experience represents a long-standing form of radical democracy, commons governance, and Indigenous self-determination.

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, Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of VE
Creation date	1800
Topics	Commons, Democracy, Ancestral Knowledge, Decolonization, Social change
Context	Rural
Number of participants
Typology	Cultural Sovereignty
Languages	Spanish; Castilian, ⧼rv-language-pid⧽
Thematics	Radical DemocracyRadical Democracy