Restoration Area

Ancestral Land of the Chichupampa Clan

By the 1500s, the Chichupampa Clan was part of the larger indigenous community of Kutakachi, today recognized as the Otavalo Nation. This clan shared resources with the indigenous communities of Morochos, Uksha Punku, and Kumbas Kunde. Early in the 1500s, the Inka empire reached northern Ecuador, defeating the Quitu-Cara in today's Quito, the capital of Ecuador. The Chuchubamba Clan survived the Inkas as they converged and transformed the sovereign indigenous groups into the Inka Empire stretching from Bolivia to Pasto, Colombia.

Spanish Haciendas - middle-late 1500s until 1970s

People of the Chuchubamba Clan were removed from their ancestral land and put into Encomiendas, the 'Other Slavery.' The chichubamba land was part of the San Rafael Hacienda during the Spanish colony. This hacienda would persist until the 1970s second agriculture reform in Ecuador, passing the land to mestizo landowners.

Land Reclamation

After the second agrarian reform, indigenous people could purchase back their ancestral land from the hands of mestizo landowners.
From 2002 to 2010, members of the Chichubamba Clan began the arduous journey to reclaim and return home.